Your choice of "stone age" is what bothered me most, as it denotes "cave man" like mentality, when we know indigenous people in the Americas and elsewhere had sophisticated and some socially advanced societies. Of course, being a part of humankind they also had all of the negative that entails, as well.

My fault for assuming everyone knew I was not negating earlier civilisations' influence on the Constitution etc. There is evidence that Franklin was aware of the Iroquois document (Doug, I use that term loosely, as I do not know if it was written or not; I do have a book with it written in English, side-by-side with our Constitution); recognised its elegance and did draw from it.

As for PC, modern morality, equity, etc it is no mystery to the Mudcat that I am liberal, believe in being ethically conscious, work on human rights, figure the partriarchal age has been in its death throes since the Age of Aquarius began in the 60's, leaving some pretty special men and women in its wake, and, of course, this country was a giant WOODSTOCK before the whitehides got here!! Where do you think the hippies got their ideas??? I mean, like, really, man!