{"id":1274,"date":"2011-09-11T17:21:23","date_gmt":"2011-09-11T21:21:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.peoplevstate.com\/?p=1274"},"modified":"2011-11-13T15:24:22","modified_gmt":"2011-11-13T19:24:22","slug":"the-great-law-of-peace-of-the-iroquois-confederacy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.peoplevstate.com\/?p=1274","title":{"rendered":"The Great Law of Peace of the Iroquois Confederacy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Via <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Great_Law_of_Peace\">Wikipedia<\/a>, I&#8217;ve been reading <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ratical.org\/many_worlds\/6Nations\/EoL\/index.html#ToC\"><em>Exemplar of Liberty: Native America and the Evolution of Democracy<\/em><\/a>, by Donald Grinde and Bruce Johansen. The thesis of the book is that the Founders&#8217; contact with Native Americans and their forms of government inspired Revolutionary fervor and ultimately influenced the U.S. Constitution. Personally, I believe, with <a href=\"http:\/\/www.lewrockwell.com\/orig3\/nock1.html\">Albert Jay Nock<\/a>, that, rhetoric aside, subsequent history (including the genocide of Native Americans) demonstrates that the prospects for Old World-style exploitation in the New World, and the wresting of the mechanisms for such exploitation from British hands into American hands, was a far greater motivator for the Founders and the U.S. Constitution than the libertarian example of their indigenous neighbors. Nevertheless, the Native American exemplar remains as a reminder of what America could have been, and as an indictment of what America has become.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Via Wikipedia, I&#8217;ve been reading Exemplar of Liberty: Native America and the Evolution of Democracy, by Donald Grinde and Bruce Johansen. The thesis of the book is that the Founders&#8217; contact with Native Americans and their forms of government inspired Revolutionary fervor and ultimately influenced the U.S. Constitution. Personally, I believe, with Albert Jay Nock, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[112,117],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1274","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-albert-jay-nock","category-iroquois"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.peoplevstate.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1274","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.peoplevstate.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.peoplevstate.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.peoplevstate.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.peoplevstate.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1274"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.peoplevstate.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1274\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1504,"href":"https:\/\/www.peoplevstate.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1274\/revisions\/1504"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.peoplevstate.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1274"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.peoplevstate.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1274"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.peoplevstate.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1274"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}