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What is the significance of the General Assembly that met in Jamestown Virginia in 1619?
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What is the name of Virginia's legislature?
The Virginia General Assembly. The Virginia General Assembly.
What was the first lawmaking body in north America?
Virginia. More specifically The House of Burgess.
What was the name of the representative assembly in Jamestown?
The Virginia Legislature is still known as the General Assembly. It is the oldest continuous English speaking law-making body in the world.
How many members are in the Virginia general assembly?
140 members are in the Virginia general assembly
When was Virginia General Assembly created?
Virginia General Assembly was created on 1619-07-30.
What is the name of the Virginia Legislative body?
That is the General Assembly of the commonwealth of Virginia
What is the name of the Virginia Legislator?
The answer is The Virginia General Assembly.
Where is the Virginia general assembly?
Richmond.
Who does the Virginia General Assembly make laws for?
Everyone in Virginia
Representatives to the general assembly were called?
Representatives to the general assembly were called contingents. This was in the very first general assembly which was held in Virginia colony.
What are the two houses of the Virginia legislative branch called?
The Senate and The House of Representatives
What did the Virginia colony do for safety?
Besides building a stockade (a log wall) around the settlement at Jamestown, in the year 1618, the Royal Governor decreed the creation of the Public Guard, to "Protect ye General Assembly from ye Indians". (The General Assembly is the Virginia Legislature) This was the first law enforcement agency is what is now the US, and it is still in existence, in the form of the Virginia State Capitol Police.
