Yes, goodness me, how silly thinking that Germanic institutions might have influence on Central and Western Europe, which were filled with Germanic-derived states.

Wait a second... are you suggesting that prussia could be considered a "germanic" country back then? Do you think they had things in saxony? Lol ^^

What.

Our notion that democracy was spear-headed in athens is highly romanticized.

Why would it? Ethnographic studies of Native Americans were not of considerable interest to European philosophers at the time. And certainly not accurate ones.

Ahem... "Philosophy is when you are uninterested in the biggest anthropological discovery of the last two centuries. The less interest you have, the more philosophic it is.".

But unless you're going to argue that the rationalist, social-contract style thinking of the Enlightenment was replicated amongst Native American tribes, I don't really know how much similarity there is in the thinking beyond the commonality of all democratic polities, in Africa, Europe, Asia, and the Americas.

Foreign culture is filtered through your own cultural lenses. Ever seen japanese media based on Goethe's Faust?

Yes, I am well aware that the Founding Fathers knew about Native Americans and their forms of governance;

What? I thought it was...

[...] an absolutely bizarre idea.