The Iroquois Confederacy's Great Law of Peace and the US Constitution

I am collecting here links and resources on the Iroquois Confederacy's Great Law of Peace and the US Constitution.
"Besides well-known European precedents — from Greece, Rome, and English common law, among others — indigenous American ideas of democracy have shaped the government of the United States. Immigrants arrived in colonial America seeking freedom and found it in the confederacies of the Iroquois and other Native nations. By the time of the Constitutional Convention in 1787, these ideas were common currency in the former colonies, illustrated in debates involving Benjamin Franklin, Thomas Jefferson, and John Adams. Later, during the 19th century, conceptions of Iroquois gender relations had an important impact on major architects of American feminism. These ideas illuminate political debates today." via http://www.america.gov/st/peopleplace-english/2009/June/20090617110824wrybakcuh0.5986096.html

Bill Summary & Status
100th Congress (1987 - 1988)
S.CON.RES.76
All Information

http://thomas.loc.gov/cgi-bin/bdquery/D?d100:76:./list/bss/d100SC.lst:@@@L&summ2=m&

Iroquois Confederacy and the US Constitution
http://www.iroquoisdemocracy.pdx.edu/ 

Oldest Living Participatory Democracy on Earth
http://www.ratical.org/many_worlds/6Nations/

HAUDENOSAUNEE GUIDE FOR EDUCATORS
www.nmai.si.edu/education/files/HaudenosauneeGuide.pdf

The Great Law of Peace of The Longhouse People
http://www.manataka.org/page135.html

Lesson Plan: The Iroquois Great Law of Peace and The Constitution of the United States

Iroquois Confederacy and the Influence Thesis
http://www.campton.sau48.k12.nh.us/iroqconf.htm

The Documents That Bind US
http://www.adl.org/tools_teachers/lesson_documents_bind.asp

 

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