The history of the Amphictyonic League, or Council, that Madison referenced is obscure stuff to us, but it was not in early America, so it has continued relevance today. One reason that in the United States of the twenty-first century the 580,000 people of Wyoming are represented by two senators, the same number as the 40 million citizens of California, is because of the example of this league, which was a series of confederations of cities formed early in Greek history. The league’s member states had equal voting rights without regard to size or power.
