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Autor/in | Venables, Robert W. |
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Titel | The Founding Fathers: Choosing to Be the Romans. |
Quelle | In: Northeast Indian Quarterly, 6 (1989) 4, S.30-55 |
Sprache | englisch |
Dokumenttyp | gedruckt; Zeitschriftenaufsatz |
Schlagwörter | Stellungnahme; American Indian Culture; American Indian History; American Indians; Colonial History (United States); Constitutional History; Cultural Exchange; Cultural Influences; Federal Government; Governmental Structure; Political Attitudes |
Abstract | Reviews Iroquois influences on historical processes leading to the U.S. Constitution and on its philosophical intent and content. Argues that the Founding Fathers drew parallels between native confederacies and ancestral European tribes, and eventually rejected confederated government because the more unified Romans conquered the tribes. Contains 55 references. (SV) |
Erfasst von | ERIC (Education Resources Information Center), Washington, DC |