Please review your notes from the lecture by Prof. Stebbins about the Iroquois Confederacy. I do not expect you to remember every detail from this text. Instead, look for the bigger picture here. Read it with de las Casas, Hobbes, and Locke in mind.
1) Describe the kind of text the "Great Binding Law" is. What does it remind you of?
2) Do you see similarities in it to the modern US government?
3) What role does religion (the notion of a creator) and nature play in this text?
4) What political posts are defined?
5) What role do women play in the society?
6) For what kind of situations does the Law provide rules?
7) What does it reveal about its society? Can you provide concrete examples?
8) What are the rules about successorship and inheritance?
9) What kind of theory or practice of government do you detect in this text?
10) What form of domination does it advocate?
11) Is this text based on a concept of equality similar to that described by Locke and Hobbes?