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https://www.pbs.org/native-america/blogs/native-voices/how-the-iroquois-great-law-of-peace-shaped-us-democracy/#:~:tex
PBS "In 1988, the U.S. Senate paid
tribute with a resolution3 that
said, "The confederation of the
original 13 colonies into one
republic was influenced by the
political system developed by
the Iroquois Confederacy, as
were many of the democratic
principles which were
incorporated into the
constitution itself.""

https://www.archives.gov/founding-docs/declaration-transcript
National archives “The unanimous Declaration of
the thirteen united States of
America, When in the Course
of human events, it becomes
necessary for one people to
dissolve the political bands
which have connected them
with another, and to assume
among the powers of the
earth, the separate and equal
station to which the Laws of
Nature and of Nature's God
entitle them, a decent respect
to the opinions of mankind
requires that they should
declare the causes which impel
them to the separation.”
https://www.studentsofhistory.com/enlightenment-ideas-lead-to-revolutions
Students of History “the social contract theory
gave the people reason to
overthrow their monarchs.”

https://www.law.cornell.edu/wex/separation_of_powers_0#:~:text=The%20term%20%E2%80%9CSeparation%20of%20Powe
Cornell Law School “Congress, in addition to other
enumerated responsibilities, is
responsible for creating laws.”
https://www.archives.gov/founding-docs/bill-of-rights-transcript#toc-the-u-s-bill-of-rights
National archives “Congress shall make no law
respecting an establishment of
religion, or prohibiting the free
exercise thereof.”
https://www.archives.gov/founding-docs/constitution-transcript
National archives “The Senate shall have the sole
Power to try all Impeachments.
When sitting for that Purpose,
they shall be on Oath or
Affirmation. When the
President of the United States
is tried, the Chief Justice shall
preside: And no Person shall
be convicted without the
Concurrence of two thirds of
the Members present.”
https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/fuller-margaret/
Stanford “Margaret Fuller (1810–1850),
encyclopedia of one of the most important
philosophy American feminists of her day,
was a philosopher, journalist,
and literary critic.”
https://www.abrahamlincolnonline.org/lincoln/speeches/gettysburg.htm
Abraham Lincoln “Four score and seven years
online ago our fathers brought forth
on this continent, a new
nation, conceived in Liberty,
and dedicated to the
proposition that all men are
created
“I have aequal.”
https://www.npr.org/2010/01/18/122701268/i-have-a-dream-speech-in-its-entirety
NPR dream that one day
this nation will rise up and live
out the true meaning of its
creed: We hold these truths to
be self-evident, that all men
are created equal.”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w-9aSAwct34&ab_channel=R.H.SmithCenterfortheConstituton
R.H. Smith Center “Really it goes all the way back
for the to the colonial era”
Constitution

"I believe a rich plunderer like

https://www.nps.gov/pull/learn/historyculture/the-strike-of-1894.htm
National Park
Service Pullman is a greater felon than
a poor thief, and it has become
no small part of the duty of
this organization to strip the
mask of hypocrisy from the
pretended philanthropist and
show him to the world as an
oppressor of labor...The
paternalism of the Pullman is
the same as the interest of a
slaveholder in his human
chattels. You are striking to
avert slavery and
degradation."
https://journals.openedition.org/rccs/646
Open Edition “The 1960s and early 1970s
Journals were notable for the rise and
spread of student movements
across many parts of the
industrialized world.”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cB7BDsikU6M&ab_channel=Carneades.org
Carneades.org “They critiqued and
questioned social institutions
of organized religion,
industrialized society, slavery
and the subjugation of
The School of Life women.”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EOkdFMw0pmk&ab_channel=TheSchoolofLife
“Ralph Waldo Emerson is the
father of American literature.”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JJL9S0J8-4k&list=PLpZ1YT7yUjdd5QPqonQp2DobnNlZ0AqT3&index=4
The School of Life “Most of the time
successful modern life involves
lots of technology, constantly
being connected
with other people, working
very hard for as much money
as possible and doing what
we're told. So it may come as a
surprise that some of the best
advice about modern life
comes from an unemployed
writer who lived alone in the
woods and refused to pay his
taxes.”
https://hls.harvard.edu/today/plessy-v-ferguson-at-125/
Harvard Law “Plessy was not, says Mack,
Today the origin of “separate but
equal.””
https://www.history.com/topics/black-history/brown-v-board-of-education-of-topeka
History.com “In the case that would
become most famous, a
plaintiff named Oliver Brown
filed a class-action suit against
the Board of Education of
Topeka, Kansas, in 1951, after
his daughter, Linda Brown, was
denied entrance to Topeka’s
all-white elementary schools.”
Summary Critical Assessment
Identifies influences which the Concise, informative,
Iroquois Confederacy and the Comparative table of the
Great Law of Peace had on the Iroquois Confederacy and the
creation of the Constitution of Great Law of Peace and US
United States of America. Constitution.

Claims that the United States Long yet informative

of America are an independent document that correctly
country and breaks all ties to explains the need for
Great Britain using 27 independence in the U.S.
complaints.

Gives reasons to overthrow the Concise audio document

country’s monarch, and asks makes understanding slightly
for a separation of the church easier. However, the voice is
and state. nigh unintelligible.
Explains the separation of Short and uses simple
powers in the US. language. Overall a good
reading experience.
Lists amendments created to No comment
give rights to the people of the
US

List of laws related to the No comment other than the

government (?) fact that it is VERY long
compared to these other
documents.
Explains who margaret Fuller Rather long, but complete and
was and what she did very informative. Also links to
throughout her life. bibiliographies and the like.

Shows multiple copies of Very complete, and gives

Abraham Lincoln’s most concise explanations as to the
famous speech. layout of the site.

Gives both text and audio The site is well designed and
transcriptions of Martin Luther easy to read. No other
King Jr.’s “I Have A Dream” comments
speech.

Explains the history of the No comments.

abolitionist movement all the
way back to its roots

Recounts the events of the Short and sweet article which

Pullman Strike as well as the quickly gets to the point.
aftermath. Includes a good quote.

Recounts the events of the Extremely long, and somewhat

Student movements of the hard to read with the small
1960s in minute detail. font size. Goes into extreme
detail, which can be both good
and bad.
Gives philosophical definitions Understandable and calm
as to what the voice, with good defintions.
transcendentalism movement Overall a good video.
was, as well as explaining its
history.
Explains the life of Ralph Good editing, and rather
Waldo Emerson. informative. However, the
video is a bit long.
Gives a biography of Henry Humorous with good editing.
David Thoreau. However, the video is a bit
long as well.

Explains the Plessy VS Well written and structured. I

Ferguson case. got the informations I wanted
very quickly.
Explains the events of the Slightly short, but makes it up
Brown VS Board of Education with videos peppered
case. throughout the document.
VERY simplified summary. (DO
NOT USE ANYMORE)