The Iroquois system of governing believed in all these three principles:
A.) equality among people, they believed that all people women and men were equal, they even gave strong voice and power to the council women,
C.) self-government, they had representatives of all their brother tribes and formed a confederation to govern their mutual lives.
D.)multi-tiered representation, they had different tiers among their government to secure a democratic voice for all the individuals in their citizens.
There is not evidence however, that they used: B.) checks and balances to pass on laws.
The main reason why many foreign powers treated the US government under the Articles of Confederation with scorn is because the Articles were intentionally very "weak," meaning that there was no real central government in the US to respect.
