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   markiwang@octodon.social's status on Wednesday, 12-Apr-2023 10:29:55 JST markiwang

   TIL that the US Constitution wasn't just a "thought experiment" based on European Enlightenment philosophic principles that people might be able to govern themselves without a king... It was instead modeled on a real-working example of Native American governance (the Iroquois Confederacy). https://www.history.com/news/iroquois-confederacy-influence-us-constitution

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     shrimp eating mammal 🦐 (walruslifestyle@octodon.social)'s status on Wednesday, 12-Apr-2023 10:29:54 JST shrimp eating mammal 🦐

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     @markiwang The constitutional framers may have viewed Indigenous people of the Iroquois Confederacy as inferior, but that didn't stop them from stealing and taking credit for admiring their federalist principles.

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     markiwang@octodon.social's status on Wednesday, 12-Apr-2023 14:57:57 JST markiwang

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     @walruslifestyle - i'm over 40 years old, took honors US history in high school, at least two full semesters of US history in college, constitutional law I and II in law school, and I even listen to history podcasts in my free time... That a 5-minute NPR story has shaken the foundations of my understanding for this topic is mind-blowing.

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