WI: Seventh Generation clause in the US Constitution

It's somewhat accepted now that the framers of the US Constitution might have taken at least some inspiration from Native American systems of government, particularly with regards to checks and balances and federalism, when writing the Constitution. There's even an apocryphal story that there were a number of representatives from the Haudenosaunee Confederacy were present at the Constitutional Convention for the purposes of consultation. One of the better known aspects of the Haudenosaunee constitution is that no law could be passed without taking into consideration its effects on the next seven generations.

How could such a principle be applied to the US Constitution? One thing I could see is anti-Federalists using it as a means of limiting the influence of the Federal government over the states by using it to shut down and curtail Federal laws and institutions that have started to extend beyond their initial purview.
 

Philip

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I see little effect. Any politician capable of being elected can already demonstrate the benefit of his policies not just for seven generations but seventy times seven.
 

RousseauX

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It's somewhat accepted now that the framers of the US Constitution might have taken at least some inspiration from Native American systems of government, particularly with regards to checks and balances and federalism, when writing the Constitution. There's even an apocryphal story that there were a number of representatives from the Haudenosaunee Confederacy were present at the Constitutional Convention for the purposes of consultation. One of the better known aspects of the Haudenosaunee constitution is that no law could be passed without taking into consideration its effects on the next seven generations.

How could such a principle be applied to the US Constitution? One thing I could see is anti-Federalists using it as a means of limiting the influence of the Federal government over the states by using it to shut down and curtail Federal laws and institutions that have started to extend beyond their initial purview.
purely pointless: of course the tax act of 1800 will benefit all americans for not just the next 7 but 100 generations
 
Include a requirement that at least one of the two Senators from each state must be between the ages of 20 and 40, or he or she will not be seated.

And different age ranges will give different effects.
 
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