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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.
The elected leaders in a representative government speak for the
Burgess is a word in English that originally meant a freeman of a borough (England) or burgh (Scotland). It later came to mean an elected or unelected official of a municipality, or the representative of a borough in the English House of Commons. The term was also used in some of the original American colonies, notably for the first elected legislature, the Virginia House of Burgesses.
The Civil Constitution of the Clergy forced the clergy to take an oath to the National Assembly instead of to Rome, and it required that priests be elected. This action alienated the clergy from the Revolution and infuriated the king.
The first World Assembly of Public Relations Associations was held in Mexico City in August 1978.