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"The traditional Cherokee conception of law was not embodied in conventional ideas of Western law. In fact, during the eighteenth century, the Cherokee had no centralized political system, police system, or formal court system.Rather, the Cherokee people were divided into independent towns with “some evidence that each town had a war chief and a peace chief,…charged respectively with the external and internal affairs of government.” In addition, each town also maintained a council, although these councils were mere “deliberative bodies; they did not legislate or adjudicate.” National councils were occasionally called during this time, but only to deal “with major problems of war, peace, or trade alliance that concerned all the towns.”

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Source(s):
http://tlj.unm.edu/tribal-law-journal/articles/volume_3/carroll/index.php

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