2007-10-11 12:00:29 · 3 answers · asked by Anastasia A 1 in Arts & Humanities ➔ History
The name 'Iroquois' refers not to a single tribe, but to a group of tribes that formed a confederation to ensure peace between themselves, and alliance against their various enemy tribes. This confederation created a written agreement, known as "the Great Law of Peace" which guided their participatory democracy.
The Great Law of Peace predated the U.S.'s Articles of Confederation (the predecessor to the Constitution) by at least 200, and possibly more than 600 years. It influenced the format and content of both the Articles and the Constitution. Many historians believe that much of the later documents were in fact lifted directly from the Great Law.
In any event, the guiding documents of the infant United States bore far greater similarity to those of the Iroquois than they did to the Magna Carta, or anything produced by either the Greeks or Romans.
2007-10-11 12:35:53 · answer #1 · answered by skeptik 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Names: Alabama, Alaska, Arizona, Arkansas, Connecticut, Illinois, Iowa, Kansas, Kentucky, Massachusetts, Michigan, Minnesota, Mississippi, Missouri, Nebraska, North Dakota, Ohio, Oklahoma, South Dakota, Tennessee, Utah, Wisconsin, Wyoming.
2016-11-08 01:07:50 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
skeptik is very right. The constitution is built mainly on the Great Law.
2007-10-12 09:24:21 · answer #3 · answered by your_gurl_leah 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋