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'''Gayanashagowa''' or the '''Great Law of Peace''' of the [[Iroquois]] (or Haudenosaunee) Six Nations is the oral constitution that created the [[Iroquois Confederacy]]. The law was developed by a [[Huron]] man known as [[The Great Peacemaker]] and his spokesman [[Hiawatha]]. Member Nations ratified this constitution near present day Victor, New York.

The Iroquois Confederacy was once thought to have started in the 1500s, but more recent estimates date the confederacy, and its constitution between [[1090]] and [[1150]] AD. These estimates were based on the records of the confederacy leadership and astronomical dating related to the lunar eclipse that coincided with the founding of the Confederacy <ref>Mann 2005, p.332</ref>.

According to some researchers, history professor [[Dr. Donald A. Grinde]] in particular, the Gayanashagowa is said to have provided significant inspiration to [[Benjamin Franklin]] and [[James Madison]] in the writing of the [[United States Constitution]].

==Notes==
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== References ==
* Mann, Charles C. ''[[1491: New Revelations of the Americas Before Columbus]]''. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2005.

== External links ==
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* [http://sixnations.buffnet.net/Great_Law_of_Peace/ Description at the Haudenosaunee Home Page]
* [http://www.law.ou.edu/hist/iroquois.html Description at The University of Oklahoma Law Center]

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