The Great Law of Peace and the Founding Fathers
Channel: EKENNYE
Date: 05/07/2014

The United States Senate has acknowledged that our law (Iroquois) served as a model for the Constitution of the United States (U.S. S. Con. Res. 76, 2 Dec. 1987). The U.S. Constitution was, in turn, a model for the Charter of the United Nations. Our law is the basis of modern international law.

    The Americans copied our laws and customs, but they did not understand them.

    Our ancestors recognized the sovereignty of all men and women by solving community conflicts through discussion in a People's Council. In our tradition, three criteria must be kept in mind through all deliberations:

        Peace: meaning peace must be kept at all costs.
        Righteousness: meaning decisions must be morally right, taking into consideration the needs of seven generations to come.
        Power: meaning the power of the people must be maintained including the equal sovereignty of all men and all women. Conflicts between nations were also resolved through diplomacy and consensus. War - or the use of violence - was only a last resort. Even then, the women and children of the opponents were spared. 

    Throughout, our ancestors always respected the other nation's different customs, laws and ways of life, whether they approved of them or not. They would work out agreements on how to live side by side.
The Great Law of peace
http://www.republicoflakotah.com/2009/kaianerekowa-hotinonsionne-the-great-law-of-peace-of-the-longhouse-people/
http://nativeamericans.mrdonn.org/northeast/iroquois/leagueofnations.html
Definition of patriot
http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/patriot
   Code of Conduct  
HONESTY AND JUSTICE
Be acutely honest throughout your dealings with all people. Believe in justice, not from other people, but from yourself. To the true Warrior, there are no shades of gray in the question of honesty and justice. There is only right and wrong.
 POLITE COURTESY
  A Warrior has no reason to be cruel. They do not need to prove their strength. A Warrior is courteous even to his enemies. Without this outward show of respect, we are nothing more than animals.
  HEROIC COURAGE
 Rise up above the masses of people who are afraid to act. Hiding like a turtle in a shell is not living at all. A Warrior must have heroic courage. It is absolutely risky, It is dangerous. It is living life completely, fully, wonderfully. Heroic courage is not blind, it is intelligent and strong.
  HONOR
 A true Warrior has only one judge of honor, and this is himself. Decisions you make and how these decisions are carried out are a reflection of whom you truly are. You cannot hide from yourself.
 COMPASSION
  Through intense training the Warrior becomes quick and strong. He is not as other men. He develops a power that must be used for the good of all. He has compassion. He helps his fellow man at every opportunity. If an opportunity does not arise, he goes out of his way to find one.
 COMPLETE SINCERITY
 When a Warrior has said he will perform an action, it is as good as done. Nothing will stop him from completing what he has said he will do. He does not have to "give his word." He does not have to "promise."
 DUTY AND LOYALTY
  For the Warrior, having done some "thing" or said some "thing," he knows he owns that "thing." He is responsible for it, and all the consequences that follow. A Warrior is immensely loyal to those in his care, to those he is responsible for, he remains fiercely true.


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