The Oldest Legislative Assembly In America Its First Statehouse

Author : National Park Service
Publisher : Forgotten Books
ISBN 13 : 9781527741010
Total Pages : 48 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (41 download)

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Download or read book The Oldest Legislative Assembly in America and Its First Statehouse written by National Park Service and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2017-10-26 with total page 48 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from The Oldest Legislative Assembly in America and Its First Statehouse: National Park Service Popular Study Series, History No. 15 Much has been said about the origin of representative government in America and perhaps, as yet, the complete story has not been told. It is stating the obvious, however, to say that the first assembly, in 1619, did not spring fully developed as an organ of representative democracy. The first assembly, in 1619, was the first meeting of an assembly set up for Virginia as a part of a general reorganization introduced by the Virginia Company of London 1 to improve conditions in the colony which it was directing. It was the gradual evolution and development of this assembly in Virginia, of similar bodies later in the other colonies, that made it the fundamental mechanism of free government as we know it today. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.