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The choice of words is very important; after all, a lot of thought should go into what you name your new country. It has to have significant meaning. So why the word “Confederate”? The Southern states in forming a new government harkened back to the original document that first created the United States in 1781 — the Articles of Confederation. To protect the states from a too-powerful central government, the Articles clearly outlined that the powers of the individual states were dominant. In fact, the Articles only pledged the states to enter into “a firm league of friendship.” It was this spirit of the Confederation that led to the naming of the Confederate States of America. The creation of the Confederacy can be seen as a conservative revolutionary act, intended to go back to the original form of American government.