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Federalist No. 18 Explained: What Ancient Greece Got Wrong
Ancient Greece tried, twice, to bind its proud city-states into a single union — and both times it ended in chains. Hamilton and Madison open the history books and lay the two great Greek confederacies on the table like an autopsy. The first, the Amphictyonic Council, had more power on paper than America's own failing government, and even claimed the gods at Delphi on its side — yet it collapsed into bullying and was handed to Philip of Macedon by the very cities too jealous to unite, a "friend" who was invited in and stayed as a master. The second, the Achaean League, was a tighter, wiser…
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