Which lords, or chiefs, had the greatest amount of power? In The Iroquois Constitution.

The Great Peacemaker authorized a council of family and village chiefs to govern the Confederacy. In all tribe, which had maternal family arrangements of origin and property-holding, power was distributed between the sexes.

Men kept the beliefs of paternal chiefs by their mother's family. Mothers governed on the health of chiefs and could dismiss of any that they encountered. Most judgments in committee were made by consent, to which each diplomat had an equivalent opinion.

The unwritten regulations and practices of the Great Law of Peace matured the law of the Iroquois Confederacy, founded in the 16th century or earlier.