Cajunscot, I was thinking of the Six Nations of the Iroquois Confederacy, and "The Great Binding Law." I did a little bit of a search, and got results saying that this had absoluteley no influence what so ever on governor Hooker on down through the framers of the constitution; that it is a complete myth and rewriting of history. I also got some search results that said it did have some influence, perhaps as a model, on the framers of the constitution etc; not to say that the American confederation then constitution was copied from "The Great Binding Law" or anything like that.

So, I have no idea if it's true or not...