Question

Read the excerpt from the Iroquois Constitution. There are now the Five Nations Confederate Lords standing with joined hands in a circle. This signifies and provides that should any one of the Confederate Lords leave the council and this Confederacy his crown of deer's horns, the emblem of his Lordship title, together with his birthright, shall lodge on the arms of the Union Lords whose hands are so joined. He forfeits his title and the crown falls from his brow but it shall remain in the Confederacy. In this excerpt, the word "lodge" helps the readers understand that

Answer 1

a disgraced Lord’s crown and birthright will remain a part of the Five Nations, even if the Lord leaves.

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Answer 2

It means that the power represented by the titlewould be assumed by the Confederacy.

Step-by-step explanation:

The Iroquois confederacy tried to avoid centrifugal tendencies. So what the passage tells us is that no matter the position assumed by an individual, it would be the Confederacy the one that would encompass the power of the titles, and the individuals would just be a representation of the power of the Confederacy.