Iroquois Versus United States Constitution The Iroquois Constitution by Dekanawida heavily influenced Madison’s United States Constitution as evidenced by Comparing Powers, Selecting chief statesmen/representative and Qualifications of chief statesmen/representative. The Powers in the United States constitution is very different from the iroquois constitution, because in the United States their powers are divided up into two sections the house and the senate when the powers of the iroquois constitution is in the elder brothers and younger brothers (Schaaf, Gregory 1987). Selecting the chief statesmen/representative are very different in the United States constitution the representative is picked by the people for the people and we get to choose