The father of confederation is deadlock.

...As the disparity between the rich and the poor grows, the fight to corner resources is intensifying. To push through their "sweetheart deals," to…

— Arundhati Roy

“In examining the division of powers, as established by the Federal Constitution, remarking on the one hand the portion of sovereignty which has been…

— Alexis de Tocqueville

“Great promise and responsibility await Canada. As we look ahead to the next 150 years, we will continue to rise to the most pressing…

— Justin Trudeau

If Yugoslavia is to exist, it can exist only as an alliance, a confederation of independent states.

— Anonymous

“The great and radical vice in the construction of the existing Confederation is in the principle of LEGISLATION for STATES or GOVERNMENTS, in their…

— Alexander Hamilton

When any one State in the American Union refuses obedience to the Confederation by which they have bound themselves, the rest have a natural…

— Thomas Jefferson

All the perplexities, confusion and distress in America arise, not from defects in their Constitution or Confederation, not from want of honor or virtue,…

— John Adams

The Supreme Court, in 2005, emphasized and contrasted the great power of Congress under the Commerce Clause to regulate interstate commerce versus much more…

— Barbara Ann Radnofsky

Brandon McCaw did a question about Federalism is a politicial system in which two or more distinct levels of government share and except power…

— Brandon Mccaw

I have made it quite clear that a unified Ireland was one solution that is out. A second solution was a confederation of two…

— Margaret Thatcher

Confederation is only yet in the gristle, and it will require five years more before it hardens into bone.

— John A. Macdonald

I think in Atlantic Canada, because of what happened in the decades following Confederation, there is a culture of defeat that we have to…

— Stephen Harper

The power of the people pervading the proposed system, together with the strong confederation of the states, will form an adequate security against every…

— John Dickinson

I am challenging Ezer Weizman to accept the democratic state where both of us can live in this democratic state. What confederation? No. One…

— Yasser Arafat

As in forming a political society, each individual contributes some of his rights, in order that he may, from a common stock of rights,…

— John Dickinson