Federalist No. 18: The Same Subject Continued (The Insufficiency of the Present Confederation to Preserve the Union)
For the Independent Journal. To the People of the State of New York: AMONG the confederacies of antiquity, the most considerable was that of the Grecian republics, associated under the Amphictyonic council. From the best accounts transmitted of this celebrated institution, it bore a very instructive analogy to the present Confederation of the American States. […]