The most common approach describes the Sun as analogous to a federal government and the states and other administrative divisions as planets.
Thomas Jefferson wrote that the U.S. states were "like the planets revolving round their common sun, acting and acted upon according to their respective weights and distances," [1] Alexander Hamilton invoked a similar analogy in Federalist No.
Jefferson used the analogy to emphasize the systematic, self-balancing nature of the new United States Constitution.
The analogy is also employed in an attempt to borrow Copernican simplicity as compared to Ptolemaic complexity.
Some theorists have used the analogy in the context of improving international relations, for example Emery Reves in The Anatomy of Peace: "Our political and social conceptions are Ptolemaic.