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35 Times the US Trampled on Native American Rights

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Jennie A. Brownscombe's "The First Thanksgiving at Plymouth" from 1914. Wikimedia Commons / Public Domain.

27. The Constitution Was Actually Based on Native American Law

The US Constitution was based on Iroquois law. Hillsdale.edu.

The Founding Fathers may have drawn some ideas from the ancient Greeks, but ultimately, the United States Constitution resembles a written version of the unwritten law that governed the Iroquois confederation. The Iroquois had many different tribes (akin to “states”) that were headed by a “federal” government, and they had things like veto power and representative government.

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