FEDERALIST No.18 The Same Subject Continued (The Insufficiency of the Present Confederation to Prese

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.

The members retained the character of independent and sovereign states and had equal votes in the federal council. This council had a general authority to propose and resolve whatever it judged necessary for the common welfare of Greece; to declare and carry on war; to decide in the last resort all controversies between the members; to fi ne the aggressing party; to employ the whole force of the confederacy against the disobedient; to adm ......     （共10869字）    [阅读本文]>>