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The Anti-Confederation Party was opposed by the ConfederationParty of Charles Tupper.
It was, however, was soundly defeated in the 1866 election by the ConfederationParty led by Peter Mitchell.
Anti-Confederate leader Albert Smith and Confederate Peter Mitchell were both Conservatives, while one of the most prominent leaders of the pro-Confederation forces, Samuel Leonard Tilley, was a Liberal.
Confederation, Articles of, in U.S. history, ratified in 1781 and superseded by the Constitution of the United States in 1789.
In the Articles of Confederation submitted by the committee to the Second Continental Congress on July 12, 1776, three points provoked much argument—the apportionment of taxes according to population, the granting of one vote to each state, and the right of the federal government to dispose of public lands in the West.
In Article 4, the free inhabitants of each state were granted the privileges of free citizens in all the states, extradition was provided for, and it was stipulated that full faith and credit be given the records, acts, and judicial proceedings of the courts of one state by the courts of every other state.
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