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This Day in Legal History: America’s First Representative Assembly
On July 30, 1619, in a wooden church at Jamestown, twenty-two elected representatives took their seats alongside the governor and his council, and the first representative legislative assembly in what would become the United States came to order. This was the Virginia General Assembly—soon known through its elected chamber as the House of Burgesses—and it marks the beginning of self-government by elected representatives in America.
The mechanics were modest and the setting brutal: two burgesses were elected from each of the…
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