1. confederacy - Noun
2. Confederacy - Proper noun
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.
Source: Webster's dictionaryIf the Confederacy falls, there should be written on its tombstone: Died of a theory. Jefferson Davis
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
Shoot down the Confederacy and uphold the flag; the American flag. Frederick Douglass
"Jelly-bean" is the name throughout the undissolved Confederacy for one who spends his life conjugating the verb to idle in the first person singular - I am idling, I have idled, I will idle. F. Scott Fitzgerald
The Confederacy stands for slavery and the Union for freedom. Abraham Lincoln
I yield to no one precedence in love for the South. But because I love the South, I rejoice in the failure of the Confederacy. Woodrow Wilson