Editing Pre-Columbian era (section)

=== Iroquois ===
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The [[Iroquois]] League of Nations or "People of the Long House" was a politically advanced, democratic society, which is thought by some historians to have influenced the [[United States Constitution]],<ref>{{Cite journal |last=Daly |first=Janet L. |year=1997 |title=The Effect of the Iroquois Constitution on the United States Constitution |url=http://www.ipoaa.com/iroquois_constitution_united_states.htm |journal=IPOAA Magazine |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170702105730/http://www.ipoaa.com/iroquois_constitution_united_states.htm |archive-date=2 July 2017}}</ref><ref>{{cite book |last=Woods |first=Thomas E. |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=dCMcnBRKR-0C&pg=PA62 |title=33 Questions about American History You're Not Supposed to Ask |publisher=Crown Forum |year=2007 |isbn=978-0-307-34668-1 |page=62}}</ref> with the [[United States Senate|Senate]] passing a resolution to this effect in 1988.<ref>{{cite web |date=21 October 1988 |title=H. Con. Res. 331 |url=https://www.senate.gov/reference/resources/pdf/hconres331.pdf |url-status=live |archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/archive/20221009/https://www.senate.gov/reference/resources/pdf/hconres331.pdf |archive-date=9 October 2022 |publisher=United States Senate}}</ref> Other historians have contested this interpretation and believe the impact was minimal or did not exist, pointing to numerous differences between the two systems and the ample precedents for the constitution in European political thought.<ref name="Shannon">{{cite book |last=Shannon |first=Timothy J. |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Gz-ApAxMaPIC&pg=PA6 |title=Indians and Colonists at the Crossroads of Empire: The Albany Congress of 1754 |publisher=Cornell University Press |year=2002 |isbn=0-8014-8818-4 |pages=6–8}}</ref><ref name="Tooker">{{cite book |title=Invented indian |publisher=Transaction Publishers |year=1990 |isbn=978-1-4128-2659-4 |editor-last=Clifton |editor-first=James A. |pages=107–128 |chapter=The United States Constitution and the Iroquois League |chapter-url=https://books.google.com/books?id=ARbVmr941TsC&pg=PA107}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |last=Rakove |first=Jack |date=21 July 2005 |title=Did the Founding Fathers Really Get Many of Their Ideas of Liberty from the Iroquois? |url=http://hnn.us/articles/12974.html |work=History News Network |publisher=Columbian College of Arts and Sciences, [[George Mason University]]}}</ref>