Decoration of Independence?

Question

How come since it's a proven fact, that they don't teach our kids that the ground work and allot of the rights that was put in the Decoration of Independence came from the Six Nations Iroquois Confederacy. is it because it would make them look bad that they didn't come up with it themselves?

Answer 1

This is heard quite often and certainly a number of the Founders were familiar with Six Nation Confederacy (more correctly the Haudenosaunee) but this is not the source of the Declaration of Independence or any other document of what would become the United States.

The Declaration of Independence was a document evolved from English Common Law. This Common Law has a development history of about 3,000 years going back to Celtic (and then Saxon) Village Law. It was first formalized in 1215 with the 'first' great charter, the Magna Carta. From this evolved what we have today and along the way produced other documents such as, the Petition of Right [1628]; An Agreement of the Free People of England [1649]; The Bill of Rights [1689]; the Declarations of the Stamp Act Congress [1765]; Declaration of the First Continental Congress [1774]; the Declaration of Independence [1776]; the Articles of Confederation [1778]; The 1783 Treaty of Peace; the Constitution of the United States [1787]; the Bill of Rights [1791].

Many of those who worked on such documents were influenced by Locke, Adams, and Montesquieu as well as their experience with England more than anything else.

By the way, there was never an allotment of rights. Rights were recognized in Common Law as inherent in the individual and existing outside of and prior to any document. Any listing of rights were merely attempts to control rulers.

Answer 2

Actually it is based on the Declaration of Aborath. This was a Scottish document signed during the time of Edward. This document proclaimed Scotland an independenct nation from England and stated that as long as 100 Scots lived that they would not live under English Tyranny. This is a very significant document in that it is the earliest document that provided for the removal of a sovereign that didn't govern according to the will of the people.
The numbers of people involved in the Continental Congress were to a large extent Scots, Irish, Welsh and Cornish. This was the largest grouping. The second largest was the Germans and the smallest representation was the English. The representatives at the Continental Congress would have been aware of this document and in fact, were probably schooled in it as children-especially if they had Scottish or other Celtic parents. You can view the discussion on this matter at the National Tartan Day observance.
There is very little difference between the beliefs of many Native tribes and those of Ireland, Scotland, Wales, Cornwall, Manx and Breton. The old beliefs were still in sway in many of those regions and the belief systems in the afterlife were amazingly similiar. The forms of government under the Law of Brehon was similiar in many forms with that of many of the Native governments. So that government would be similiar is not surprising.
Also the Declaration of Independence did not set up the American government-the Articles of Confederaton and the Constitution of the United States did. Prince Charles Stewart (Bonny Prince Charlie) did help this process out by refusing a crown of the Americas and in fact recommended that the colonies found a new government in honor of this being a new land.

Answer 3

what's a real hoot is that libs have informed me for years that history isn't" correct",Now they opt to apply it to slam those with. What i opt to be responsive to is what do you be responsive to approximately it. You took it out of faculty, rewrote it to verify your schedule and now opt to apply it?

Answer 4

the first answerer is right