> i thought jefferson and co.'s ideas of freedom and democracy were
> largely influenced by what they observed of the iroquois confederacy?
Oh, please, as if such intelligent, cultured, erudite, pious white men
could have learned anything from a bunch of half-naked red-skinned
heathen?
But seriously, my understanding is that Jefferson and co. drew many
practical lessons from the Iroquois confedaracy, but drew the theoretical
underpinning for their work almost entirely from classic political
thought.
E
--
Erik Curiel
almost web-engineer/would-be philosopher
"The affairs of human beings are not worthy of great seriousness,
and yet we must take them seriously."
---Plato, *The Laws*
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