Ancient Haudenosaunee governance mandated decisions be weighed by seventh-generation impact

Evidence

The Great Law of Peace that the Peacemaker gave the united nations was a wise and detailed constitution — with a council of chiefs chosen by the clan mothers (for the women held the power to choose and remove the chiefs), with rules for making decisions by careful discussion until all could agree, and with the command that the chiefs must always think of the wellbeing of the people, and must weigh every decision by its effect upon the SEVENTH GENERATION yet to come. — , A Year of World Stories, 9386

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: The Haudenosaunee constitution vested chief-selection power in clan mothers; The Haudenosaunee Confederacy is among the world’s oldest living governments — Winona LaDuke, All Our Relations: Native Struggles for…, 82; The seven-generations decision rule rests on Iroquois constitutional thought — Douglas A. Kysar, Regulating from Nowhere: Environmental…, 386

Related

• The seven-generations decision rule rests on Iroquois constitutional thought (similarity 0.84)
• The Haudenosaunee constitution vested chief-selection power in clan mothers (similarity 0.83)
• The Haudenosaunee Confederacy is among the world’s oldest living governments (similarity 0.83)
• A Seventh Generation deliberation rule would have voided thousands of U.S. government decisions. (similarity 0.81)