The Importance of Documented Rules

There are some out there who defy rules; some who rebel against them with an anarchistic cause.  Some find a sanctuary in this idea.  For practical (and noble) purposes, rules are very necessary.  Order and law is something that allows each and every country in the world to thrive.  Those with lax policies and unenforced rules are ones that typically fail.  Now I'm not all high and mighty for rules.  Authority can be wrong a lot of times, and it can be abused.  The system can be easily flawed, as well.  But, in all, rules are completely necessary as a way of allowing a society to survive.

The rules under my radar today are the rules of the Iroquois League, a joining of many different clans that inhabited central North America.  Before their integration, many wars took place between all the tribes.  Each one had a different set of rules and guidelines from the other one, and so chaos was almost impossible to avoid.  When enough was enough, the tribes met and decreed that they would join together in an effort to create peace between them all.  In this, a complete document of rules was established.  The Iroquois Constitution envelops many principles of the importance of documented rules.  If not for the Iroquois Constitution, havoc and chaos would have still ensued within the tribes of Central North America.

Not only this, but the overall principles of the Iroquois Constitution are completely revolutionary.  Never before was a combination of rival tribes so fluid and easy.  Though they often fought over trivial details between their beliefs and rules, they were able to integrate into a band of tribes that would live off of the peace of them as a whole.  They invited outsiders with open arms, only asking any one that should wish to join to obey their rules and respect what peace they had created.  The American Constitution took ideas from this constitution as well (along with philosophies by John Locke and the Roman council).  Come to think of it, we're not too original when it comes to our core foundations and beliefs in our own constitution.  Regardless, this only furthers the extent of the constitution's relevance, and the reason by which documented rules are to be looked up to and revered.