The Federalist Papers · Federalist No. 18 · paragraph 13

The Union here was far more intimate, and its organization much wiser, than in the preceding instance. It will accordingly appear, that though not exempt from a similar catastrophe, it by no means equally deserved it.

Publius · Alexander Hamilton, John Jay, James Madison · 1787–1788
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