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Native American Influence on the ConstitutionThe event or issue discussed in this document is the influence of Native Americans on the U.S. Constitution. There is a fairly lengthy history of research that contends that Native Americans actually played a considerable role in the founding of the U.S. Constitution. Moreover, there is also evidence that supports that certain members of the founding fathers were directly impacted by Native Americans. In fact, there are specific Native American tribes and political representations of these tribes that are alleged to have contributed to the U.S. Constitution. A good amount of this evidence is considered in "Our Founding Mothers and Fathers, The Iroquois."
There is certainly evidence that supports the idea that there was a Native American influence on the formation of the U.S. Constitution. That evidence is predicated on the effect of the Iroquois tribe on the founding fathers. Specifically, the Iroquois had a political council known as the Iroquois Confederacy that interacted with various members of the founding fathers. This evidence suggests that
"It is surely one of the most closely guarded secrets of American history that the Iroquois Confederacy had a major role in helping such people as Benjamin Franklin,...
It denotes the specific members of the founding fathers who were influenced by the Iroquois in regards to the development of democratic notions during the period in which the Constitution was formed. There are additional points of this evidence which indicate that the influence of the aforementioned confederacy was particularly potent during the time in which the founding fathers composed the Albany Plan (Mander 31). This piece of the evidence helps to identify a pertinent time frame in which the Native American influence on the founding fathers was particularly significant.
In the essay that is examined for this document, there is actually fairly little evidence to discredit the influence of the Native Americans on the formation of the U.S. Constitution. The author mentions numerous times that there are disbelievers regarding the influence of Native Americans on the founding fathers in pursuit of their forming the Constitution. But there is scarce substantiation for this disavowal. The author mentions that many "Westerners continue to assume that flow of influence was simply…
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