400 years ago today, in a church in Jamestown, Virginia, the first ever representative government in the Americas convened for the first time to establish local law as “the House of Burgesses.” Governor George Yeardley, installed by royal charter, gathered 22 elected Burgesses, representing the 11 plantations and settlements in Virginia. King James I, who […]
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