Abstract
Professor Gregory Schaaf's recent essay in this Review1 is a well-crafted presentation of what is becoming a common prop osition: that a direct link can be shown between governmental attributes of seventeenth and eighteenth century American Indian tribes, particularly the Iroquois Confederacy (the Six Nations),2 and the United States Constitution. The idea that American Indian concepts affected the thinking of the American founders is not new, but it is gaining currency. In recent years, it has been presented in monographs and articles,3 and it has begun to permeate the popular press as well.4 The Schaaf essay is one of the more extreme presentations of the idea. Following some other commentators, Schaaf goes so far as to say that large parts of the U.S. Constitution were
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