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TIL that one of the documents the US Constitution is predominantly modeled after is the Iroquois Constitution, an extremely sophisticated and logically consistent document that governed the 5 Native American tribes of the Iroquois Confederacy: the Mohawk, Oneida, Onondaga, Cayuga and Seneca people.

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