Re Public Deposited
[Colonial Numismatics] Gilding/Silvering
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The theory that the structures of the Iroquois Confederacy directly inspired the
framers of our own Bill of Rights or Constitution has been raised and
challenged ever since the late 19th c. I do not believe it has been accepted by
mainstream US historians. I don't want to get into an argument on the subject .
Life's too short and there are too many coins. I just wanted to interject a caveat
to the lector.
Mike H
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--- In colonial-coins@yahoogroups.com, "higleyman <wnippe@a...>" <
wnippe@a...> wrote:
> I posted this once, but it apparently didn't take...
>
> If you really want an eye-opener, look at the government that the
> Five Nations (six after 1722) establihed around 1570. It isn't hard
> to see in it legislative, judical and executive branches, an
> electoral college, the concept of executive veto, right of secession,
> etc. It was a solid confederation of sovereign states until loyalties
> split during the revolution. Given the 18th American obsession with
> freedom being the natural state of man and observation of nature, it
> is obvious that, if these Native concepts didn't drive the
> architecture of our Confederation and Constitution governments, they
> at least provided a comparative model that was known to have worked
> for more than two centuries. Plus, their use of wampum ceremonially
> at council raised the visibility of wampum enough for the Dutch to
> seize upon and corrupt (unless you buy the 'Money Speech' in Atlas
> Shrugged) the idea.
>
> Will - 2003-02-05
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