Walt,
I am confused, are you suggesting that documents could not be written before 1200 to 1500 and are you suggesting that manual production of documents (books) were not done? In fact, what are you trying to tell us? I can not figure out what you mean. Are you sure that Six Nations had no way to document things, or that it had not been documented by someone else at the time. Democracy by itself is an old Greek definition and since then there are many variations that had been tried. It is very hard to find any variation that not been tried and documented, even before the Americas was discovered. The founding fathers did not create anything new and had a very large and documented knowledge base to draw from. What is it that is new in the US constitution or unique in the US version of democracy? It might be that the US corporations have extended rights, compared to the people and in reality the US in a "Corpracy" not a "Democracy". LOL I have no idea, but if it was something called democracy in US before its discovery, it is a quite remarkable discovery. Hakan At 12:42 AM 2/17/2005, you wrote:
Of course it wasn't then a written document but an oral tradition and a model of a working democracy from which the founding fathers drew more than heavily Jess > From: Walt Patrick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Date: Wed, 16 Feb 2005 10:41:04 -0800 > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: [Biofuel] Our Godless Constitution > > At 10:57 AM 2/15/2005, you wrote: >> Has anyone else ever seen a copy of the Six Nations Constitution? > > It's hard to imagine that any such document could exist. The > agreement was formulated sometime between 1200 and 1500, long before the > Six Nations had a way to write such an agreement down. Any document > prepared in modern times would be analogous to a modern copy of the works > of Homer; i.e. the product of a long oral tradition separating the author > from the present age. > > Walt
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