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historyarch · 1992 days ago · link · · parent · post: The First Meeting of Virginia’s House of Burgesses, 1619: 400 Years of Democracy in America
400 years ago representative democracy was born in America with the first meeting of the House of Burgesses in Virginia. It is the oldest democratically elected body in the Western Hemisphere and part of a series of reforms enacted that form important pillars in American political philosophy.