The founding fathers did not develop a radically new kind of country. They observed the inter-national confederacies of the people who had already been living i

The founding fathers did not develop a radically new kind of country. They observed the inter-national confederacies of the people who had already been living in and around the area that is now called New England. Under the articles of confederation (in which the term "The United States of America" is coined) the country was run in a way very similar to the Iroquois Confederacy. The big difference was that the Articles did make it possible for the central government to develop policies to be implemented in all states; the Iroquois Confederacy did not have anything of the sort. The federalist influence came later, but the Constitution we live under now did not require such a huge amount of creativity as we like to teach in our American History classes.