Answer: Most people still believed that miasmata caused disease. A miasma could be caused by rotting food, decaying corpses, excrement or any other smelly, dirty place. Although many top physicians were now challenging Galen's ideas, most ordinary people continued to believe that illness was caused by an imbalance of humours.
Writing a constitution mirrored white society, and was an attempt to help Cherokees be accepted by whites.
They are repressed of their natural rights and civil liberties