The unsubstantiated assertion that the Iriquois Confederacy's
constitution influenced the U.S. Constitution was stated as bald fact
from the podium at the press preview for the National Museum of the
American Indian's Heye Center in Manhattan. The director of NMAI nodded
his beaming assent to the statement (made by New York's secretary of
state), which now presumably now carries the imprimatur of The
Smithsonian Institution for the Increase and Diffusion of Knowledge....
 
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