Where did the United States of America get their influence on how to run a successful government? Could it be that the all the ideas of how the American government is ran today were all ideas brought from where ever the “Americans” came from? Very possible, but in a recent conversation with a peer who was helping me come up with a great topic for this research paper we came across the topic of how the Iroquois Confederacy helped shape the new law of the land back in the 1700s when the constitution was written in Independence Hall in Philadelphia (history.com). What is the Iroquois Confederacy? The Iroquois confederacy or the League of Iroquois are a band of several Native American tribes that are originally from the area that is now New …show more content…
After the door-keepers, the notion is given to the Oneida who then send it to the Cayuga and these two are the “Younger Brothers” (mpm.edu). Lastly, the Onondaga review the notion; they are known as the “fire-keepers” of the tribe. So after everyone and their chiefs review their soon to be law there is only one way of making it a law and that is with all six nations agreeing unanimously and if one chief is to say no, then it will not become a law for the Iroquois. (mpm.edu).
The New York Times stated in an article, “One of the main influences on the framers of the Constitution was the unwritten democratic constitution under which the Iroquois Confederacy had operated since the 16th century, according to a group of American Indians and scholars.” (nytimes). So what is the United States Constitution? “The U.S. Constitution established America’s national government and fundamental laws, and guaranteed certain basic rights for its citizens. It was signed on September 17, 1787, by delegates to the Constitutional Convention in Philadelphia, presided over by George Washington” (history.com). Also within the constitution, there is a system of checks and balances within the government. The idea of having three different branches of government and checks and balances is to ensure that not one single branch could have all power or abuse their power (history.com). The three branches of
Before the American Revolution, Native Americans created diverse and complex societies and organized them around common principles. Relationships to land and leadership played important roles in structuring Native life, but served unique functions in each community. For both the Iroquois and Wampanoag, their relationships to land embodied their lifeways; their land was their identity, their resource, their claim to power and sovereignty, and more. While the Iroquois vested leadership powers in the institution of the Great League of Peace, the Wampanoag depended on the leadership of powerful sachems such as Massasoit and Metacomet. However, both the Iroquois and Wampanoag used leadership in their tribes to preserve peace to a degree and protect their sovereignty when dealing with Europeans and other Natives. Despite their similarities and differences, the Wampanoag and Iroquois distinctively used their relationships to land and leadership to protect their interests.
Iroquois Confederacy) The Iroquois Confederacy was a political and military group made up of several Native American tribes from the East coast. They helped to maintain
The Iroquois Confederacy was formed primarily as a means of peacekeeping and mediation among the five Iroquois nations and also to form an alliance, especially against foreign powers in the New World. They were highly successful in these goals, mainly because they were able to put up a united front. If you think about it, the smaller tribes were the first ones to be decimated when the Europeans arrived; some died of disease and some died in conflict, but the smaller groups were definitely at a disadvantage. Because the Iroquois were a very sizeable group, they were a force to be reckoned with. They had enough strength in numbers to put up a good fight in conflicts and they had an organized government, especially compared to the other Native
The Iroquois Constitution explains how the Native Americans want to keep peace, spread peace, and how they want more tribes.
The Beaver Wars were fought from 1640 - 1701, this war was also called the French and Iroquois Wars. The war was fought between the Iroquois Confederacy and the French and their Native allies from the Huron and Algonquin tribes who were from the central Great Lakes area (Ohio Valley). The Iroquois Confederacy consisted of Native Americans from five different tribes Mohawk, Oneida, Onondaga, Cayuga and Seneca people who were from the eastern part of Great Lakes (New York state). The Mohawk tribe began to establish trading agreements with the Dutch exchanging beaver pelts for guns, however the Mohawks also wanted to expand their territory expanding their market in the Great Lakes region. The French and their allies took offense to the expansion by the Iroquois Confederacy and a war
When the Framers of the Constitution met in Philadelphia, they came together with one common purpose in mind. They needed to form a fair and solid system of government that would stand the test of time; one that was both fair for the people and would not involve a monarchy. Each of these men had their own ideas on what would constitute this system, however, so many compromises had to be made. Together, the men gathered in Philadelphia created a federal system of government and drafted a constitution outlining this government. They took care in developing three branches of federal government with a system of checks and balances so that no one branch would gain too much power, thus avoiding any
Iroquois Confederacy, 1722, also known as the six nations to the british. It was a political and social system to unify the five territories of New York. This political system inspired the founding fathers in aspects of development.
One of these Native American colonies was the Iroquois who were mainly from the colony of New York. Iroquois were a nation of five then later six Native American tribes. The six original Iroquois tribes were the Mohawk, Oneida, Onondaga, Cayuga, and Tuscarora. They were known as the people of the long house. This is because they lived in long houses, many families lived together in one house.
Constitution have in common is that they both have a council kind of thing. The differences are though is that Iroquois is an actual council with a few people in it, while with the U.S. there are many different powers and titles vested into the U.S. like legislative, executive, and judicial powers. Plus they both have ways/rituals to get into the council just done differently. The U.S. they have to do a pledge saying that they will obey the laws that are in the constitution or they will have to accept any consequences that they will have. With the Iroquois they have it to where the person joining the council has to bring some stuff and then they use the feather that they have to use to indicate if the person wanting to join is worthy of it or
The Constitution was just in that it created a system of checks and balances within the government making all branches equal. The Legislative, Executive, and Judicial branches are the the 3 branches of the American government, they were created to maintain equal power and avoid tyranny within the US government. Tyranny was one of the main fears within the Articles of Confederation as well as the United States Constitution of 1787. The Constitution produces a just government by regulating power so that one person or branch does not gain all available power, while it also removes the possibility of a tyrant. Each branch of the government has a specific job to obtain; The Legislative branch creates the laws, the Executive branch carries out the laws, and the Judicial branch determines if they are constitutional. This divergence gives each branch a certain power that only they can carry out which maintains checks and balances. In Federalist Paper #51 by James Madison
Control methods were used in both instances to keep authority over their people and make sure no one went astray. Two methods used in both Animal Farm and under Joseph Stalin’s reign were secret police and censorship. Both police teams were brutal and were able to effectively keep the population from revolting against them. In the USSR the secret police were in charge of multiple things such as the activities in the labour camps or gulags, and policing the state but they also took part in mass executions (NKVD, 2016). This is like the secret police in Animal Farm because they also took part in mass executions.
The U.S healthcare system has been characterized as complex, fragmented and costly, and one that thus results in an inefficient allocation of resources. Due to this, the concept of integrated healthcare delivery systems (IDSs) has gained much interest over the past few decades. Throughout healthcare policy, these systems have been considered the better solution to addressing issues surrounding not only the cost of care to the system, but the quality of care that is provided from the system. Much in alignment with the concepts of managed care, integrated delivery systems act to contain the cost of healthcare, while providing quality care to the consumer.
A constitution is a written document that sets forth the fundamental rules by which a society is governed. Throughout the course of history the United States has lived under two Constitutions since the British-American colonies declared their independence from Great Britain in 1776. First in line was the Articles of Confederation (1789-1789) followed by the Constitution of United States of America (1789-present). The Articles of Confederation was the first formal written Constitution of America that specified how the national government was to operate. Unfortunately, the Articles did not last long. Under the words of the Article’s power was limited; Congress could make decisions, but had no power to enforce them. Also the articles stated
1). The reason for the construction of the Iroquois confederacy, or the league of the Iroquois, (Haudenosaunee) was the impeding factor of disunity between the tribes. Hienwatha, a Mohawk Iroquois, lived in Ontario and observed the disunity between the Iroquois tribes. In an attempt to unify the nations, he approached rival tribes and argued the benefits of unification. Initially, his idea is shut down by the elders of each tribe. The changing climate that started to occur, however, increased confrontations between tribes. Hienwatha yet again tries to explain to the Iroquois people about the possibility of peace and is rejected again. He then alludes the nations to a weaved belt of wampum shells which supposedly illustrated the connectedness of the five Iroquois nations. He traveled among the nations, of which all then supported the idea of unity, and was able to form a seemingly impenetrable force.
Hartz and Tocqueville concur that Americans embrace and agree on essential points or fundamental values like liberty, democracy, and equality. These are easy words to agree to but the application of these values can be vastly different depending on who is asked. How American values are defined and applied has split Americans along racial, gender, and class lines since the formation of the United States.