USA HISTORY

Detailed explanation-1: -House of Burgesses, representative assembly in colonial Virginia, which was an outgrowth of the first elective governing body in a British overseas possession, the General Assembly of Virginia. The General Assembly was established by Gov. George Yeardley at Jamestown on July 30, 1619.

Detailed explanation-2: -The House of Burgesses was an assembly of elected representatives from Virginia that met from 1643 to 1776. This democratically elected legislative body was the first of its kind in English North America.

Detailed explanation-3: -It was made up of 22 burgesses from various plantations and villages. King James I of England sent a charter to the colonists that allowed the creation of the Virginia General Assembly as a form of self-government so long as the Virginia Company was able to retain corporate control over the region.

Detailed explanation-4: -There have been hundreds of members of Virginia’s House of Burgesses. Among the most famous are: Peyton Randolph, William Byrd, George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, Edmund Pendleton, and Patrick Henry.

Detailed explanation-5: -The Virginia House of Burgesses and the Fundamental Orders of Connecticut involved the elections of representatives to carry on government. Thus, they were examples of representative democracy, not direct democracy (A).