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Foederati
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Foederati 

in ancient Rome:

(1) Communities allied to Rome and usually referred to as socii (“allies”).

(2) Barbarian tribes that entered Roman military service and served on the borders of the Roman Empire. In return for their service, they received border lands for settlement and money payments. Their importance was greatest during the fourth and fifth centuries A.D.



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has acquired assets of privately held information technology services provider Foedus of Portsmouth, N.
Writers on the law of nations, beginning most importantly with Pufendorf, responded by developing what would quickly become the conventional wisdom (and would form the basis for federal theory until after the Founding): Confederations were leagues of independent and sovereign states formed by treaty or foedus and their institutional embodiments were not genuine governments but congresses or diets of diplomatic representatives.
Ergo urtica rosam supplex venerarier atque Est tibi stellifero saepe colenda deo: Nam potis est toto componere foedus in aevo: Si mihi quid credis, numen in orbe novum est.
 
 
 
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