That assembly was the House of Burgesses.
They sent an important precedent for representative government for early America.
The assembly of Virginia's House of Burgesses marked the beginning of an important precedent because it was the first of several smaller parliaments to convene in America. It was established in 1619.
Parliament, the House of Burgesses, and the New York Assembly are all examples of representative government. Parliament, England's representative government, was established during the late 1200s. When English colonists came to America, they brought with them the tradition of representative government. This led to the establishment of colonial representative assemblies such as the House of Burgesses in Virginia and the New York Assembly.
validate America as a representative government
The first representative assembly in English America met July 30-August 2, 1619 in the church at Jamestown.
The governmental body which was the seed for the system of representative government in America was the house of burgesses. The Virginia House of Burgesses was the first legislative assembly of elected representatives in North America.
ordered government, limited government, & representative government
At the House of Burgesses in Jamestown, Virginia
We have a Representative Democracy in America.
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Well the Virginia General Assembly started in 1619. That would make it the oldest lawmaking body in colonial America.
An assembly of representatives from individual plantations, as well as the governor and barristers, gathered on July 30, 1619, in Jamestown and became the first representative assembly in colonial America.