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Historian Bruce Johansen believes that the Great Law of Peace was very influential.
The influence theory is supported by the fact that Benjamin Franklin and Thomas Jefferson both studied the Haudenosaunee Confederacy.
The influence theory holds that the principles of the Great Law of Peace, a centuries-old agreement binding six Native nations in the northeastern US, influenced the US Constitution.
Native people, including the members of the Haudenosaunee Confederacy, influenced the founding of the US in many different ways.