2a. Dekanawidah is speaking to Adodarhoh, chief confederate lord of the Onondaga, on whose land the council fire was it.
3a. A candidate lord shows his pledge to the council furnishing five strings of shells (or wampum) one span in length bound together at one end; that symbolizes that he will live according to the constitution of the Great Peace and exercise justice in all affairs.
4a. This excerpt from Iroquois Constitution incorporate nature like metaphor of real life.
5a. The values and the moral code described in Iroquois Constitution are all good qualities that members and the leader of a government should have. Peace and good will in the mind, patience in currying out the duty, firmness tempered with the tenderness for their people are all characteristic that a good leader should demonstrate. Unfortunately that is pure utopia. A man with these features would be perfect, but men aren't perfect so that is good purpose but impossible. Probably in a world like Iroquois's one that should be more probable because the it hadn't known yet the corruption, but in a world like nowadays that would be impossible.
1b. The meeting purpose at which Dekanawidah speaks are to plant the Tree of the Great Peace, so to establish the laws and to present the dispositions that a lord should have. Oratory skills were prized because are fundamental for a political men. Being able to speech means to be able tom communicate and make the others understand what you say by right justifications and to be able to rebut wrong reasoning readily.
2b. Dekanawidah doesn't refers to the assembled lords as “cousins” because they are really related to one another but because in front of the God they are all on the same level, they are equal. So “cousins” is used to underline that fairness.
3b. According to the constitution a leader should be proof against anger, offensive actions and criticism. His heart should be filled with peace and good will and his mind filled with a yearning for the welfare of the people of the confederacy. With endless patience he should carry out his duty and his firmness should be tempered with tenderness for his people. Neither angry or fury should find lodgment in his mind and all his words and action should be marked with calm deliberation. Everytime his self-interest should be cast into oblivion.
4b. The Five Nations have to respect the nature because for them it is where everything come from and in it there is something celestial.
5b. The Iroquois's Constitution it'a a good base from how start to make laws. He includes all reasonable behave that a good leader should have. Obviously it needs to be extended. A good law can't only speak about the behave of a leader but it is own of people, so it has to speak about people's behave to. Plus there should be in it not only what you must do, but what you can't do too. So if I have to write a Constitution I'll put in it what you could do, rights, and what you must or mustn't do, duties.
Good answers here! 10/10
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