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About the Iroquois constitution
Title: About the Iroquois constitution
Category: History
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About the Iroquois constitution
ABOUT THE IROQUOIS CONSTITUTION
During the BI-centennial year of The Constitution of the United States, a number of books were written concerning the origin of that long-revered document. One of these, The Genius of the People, alleged that after the many weeks of debate a committee sat to combine the many agreements into one formal document. The chairman of the committee was John Rutledge of South Carolina. He had served in an earlier time, along …showed first 75 words of 696 total…
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…showed last 75 words of 696 total…there were the Five Nations discussed in this Constitution. In about 1715, the Tuscarora Nation, once part of the Iroquois peoples in a much earlier period of their history, moved up from North Carolina to avoid warfare with the invading white settlers, and were adopted into the Confederacy. At this point in time, the Iroquois controlled many parts of our now eastern states from their homelands in what is now New York state.
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Dave King 2/11/01
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