[MD] Evil "Multiculturalism" and Big Bad Hispanics

[Ron Kulp]

Thanks, Ron. Here's another view:

The Iroquois Confederation Constitution: An Analysis
Donald S. Lutz
University of Houston

The Iroquois Confederation was not an influence on the U.S.
Constitution, 
but it is worthy of study as an independently developed political system

with the oldest surviving constitution in North America. A systematic 
institutional analysis of the Great Binding Law, the orally transmitted 
constitution of the Confederation, reveals, among other things: tribal 
inequality despite their formal equality under a unanimity rule; a high 
level of responsiveness despite a nondemocratic, elitist method for 
selecting leaders; many ancillary institutions for achieving a
traditional 
form of consensus rather than simple majority rule; two means of
elevating 
men to the Confederation Council, each a paradoxical blend of the pre 
political and the post-traditional; the first use of a formal amendment 
process in constitutional history; and an underlying "code of
imperialism" 
that, together with the second method of selecting Confederation Council

members, transformed a defensive alliance into a potent actor in North 
American history. Overall, the Confederation institutionally
approximated 
an Aristotelian "mixed regime" which, despite its creation under 
circumstances the Iroquois describe in Hobbesian terms, was quite 
libertarian.

Ron:
Wow. The Confederacy was more like U.S policy than I realized.

The point of the previous post was to defend the accusation of
"Primitive tribes such as the American Indians have no record of
sweetness and cooperation with other tribes. They ambushed them,
tortured them, dashed their children's brains out on rocks."

I'm here to say there IS a record to the contrary of that assumptive
statement.

Platt, I do realize that Westerners have an idealized conception of the
native peoples, but also there is the primitive immoral savage
misconception also.

both are equally Illusionary. Never trust an Academic remember?