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America As We know It Includes A Vast Network Of Representative Governments
America as we know it includes a vast network of representative governments.
During the colonial period of early America, Virginia was the first to
introduce a representative assembly. This first glimpse of democracy
influenced the shape of Am ....
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.... questionable that an idea suppressed for
centuries under the English monarchy would surface anywhere else. Moreover,
it led the way for other settlements to adopt a similar code.
Another way the representative body shaped America was slavery. Most
representatives approved slavery and practiced it. The early burgesses of
the Virginian assembly received land as their pay wages (p.14). They
needed people to work their newly acquired lands. Therefore, indentured
servants were common on their plantations. The whole idea of indentured
servants and their later inadeq ....
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