Rousseau's Social Contract is nearly a dead ringer for the structure of the American Government. He modeled his ideas after the Swiss who had been practicing a representative government for centuries. I'm sure the Founding Fathers had their home libraries stocked with books form European writers from modern back to ancient times.
Some colonials may have admired the natives. I'm sure a lot felt ill will toward them given the many bloody conflicts. I'm sure a lot of colonials looked down on them as savages and saw nothing of value. I'm sticking with Dead White European Males as the architects of the American Republic.
Interesting thing is that they all seem to come up with the future by a certain point of view. But no one completely comes out with the whole story on these calls. If you put a group of monkeys in a room, lock it, feed and water them, at some point they will rewrite the Magna Carta. So if anyone of these clairvoyance are from a long line of the same, sooner or later something they say will come true. Of course 99% of it won’t, but that 1% will. And these cons are all over the world and are believed by people that are looking for nirvana. Hope they find it.
rwood