America As We Know It Includes A Vast Network Of Representative Governments

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by George Yeardly (p.13). Perhaps, if the Virginia Company had not
instructed the governor to establish an assembly, the idea of democracy
might not have instilled into the minds of the colonists. Surely, without
this first appearance, it is 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 inadequacy eventually led to the flood of black
slaves to America. Because these representatives owned servants and slaves
themselves, slavery was easily passed into law. It has a huge ...

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