Definition of Confederacy

	Add the "Quote of the Day" to Your Site or Blog Now!
Home - Quote Topics - Quotes of the Day - Quote Keywords - Author Types - Quotation Trivia Authors: A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z

Confederacy

A league or compact between two or more persons, bodies of men, or states, for mutual support or common action; alliance.

The persons, bodies, states, or nations united by a league; a confederation.

A combination of two or more persons to commit an unlawful act, or to do a lawful act by unlawful means. See Conspiracy.

With the, the Confederate States of America.

Related Definitions:

Act, Action, Alliance, An, Between, Bodies, By, Combination, Commit, Common, Compact, Confederate, Confederation, Conspiracy, Do, For, Lawful, League, Men, More, Mutual, Of, Or, See, Support, The, To, Two, United, Unlawful, With

Confederacy Quotations

An association of men who will not quarrel with one another is a thing which has never yet existed, from the greatest confederacy of nations down to a town meeting or a vestry.
Thomas Jefferson

When a true genius appears, you can know him by this sign: that all the dunces are in a confederacy against him.
Jonathan Swift

If the Confederacy fails, there should be written on its tombstone: Died of a Theory.
Jefferson Davis

Every diminution of the public burdens arising from taxation gives to individual enterprise increased power and furnishes to all the members of our happy confederacy new motives for patriotic affection and support.
Andrew Jackson

Our country presents on every side the evidences of that continued favor under whose auspices it, has gradually risen from a few feeble and dependent colonies to a prosperous and powerful confederacy.
Martin Van Buren

The dangers of a concentration of all power in the general government of a confederacy so vast as ours are too obvious to be disregarded.
Franklin Pierce

Southern states in the confederacy were not ready to give up their fight to secede or give up their way of life, which was made possible in large part through the blood, sweat and tears of African slaves.
Corrine Brown

Neither these statesmen nor their constituents sought in any way to use the Government for the interest of themselves or their section, or for the injury of a single member of the Confederacy.
Robert Toombs

The United States form a young republic, a confederacy which ought ever to be cemented by a union of interests and affection, under the influence of those principles which obtained their independence.
Mercy Otis Warren

Self-determination could mean independence, confederacy, federal and autonomy.
Jalal Talabani

Confederacy Translations

confederacy in Norwegian is forbund

Quotes