jvancassele, Since you're too much of a wuss to let me comment on your blog I'll put my comment here:
Your argument that the Iroquois political system "almost certainly influenced. . . the Constitution" has been discussed at length in the relevant journals and has been conclusively decided in the negative. A good place to start as you increase your shallow understanding of this question would be Philip A. Levy, "Exeamplars of taking liberties: the Iroquois influence thesis and the problem of evidence," The William and Mary Quarterly, vol. 53 no. 3 (July 1996), 588-605). Johansen and Grinde essentially argue that because the US Constitution came after the Iroquois Confederation, it must have been based on it. Essentially, post hoc ergo propter hoc. To support their argument they repeatedly cite flimsy evidence that either Adams or Franklin had some passing knowledge of the Iroquois Confederacy. For further evidence they cite their own work.
If you choose to continue following Johansen and Grinde the appropriate response would be to conduct an ad hominum attack and call me a racist.
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jvancassele,
Since you're too much of a wuss to let me comment on your blog I'll put my comment here:
Your argument that the Iroquois political system "almost certainly influenced. . . the Constitution" has been discussed at length in the relevant journals and has been conclusively decided in the negative. A good place to start as you increase your shallow understanding of this question would be Philip A. Levy, "Exeamplars of taking liberties: the Iroquois influence thesis and the problem of evidence," The William and Mary Quarterly, vol. 53 no. 3 (July 1996), 588-605). Johansen and Grinde essentially argue that because the US Constitution came after the Iroquois Confederation, it must have been based on it. Essentially, post hoc ergo propter hoc. To support their argument they repeatedly cite flimsy evidence that either Adams or Franklin had some passing knowledge of the Iroquois Confederacy. For further evidence they cite their own work.
If you choose to continue following Johansen and Grinde the appropriate response would be to conduct an ad hominum attack and call me a racist.
Who's special ed now, biatch?
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