USA HISTORY

Detailed explanation-1: -The history of direct democracy amongst non-Native Americans in the United States dates from the 1630s in the New England Colonies. The legislatures of the New England colonies were initially governed as popular assemblies, with every freeman eligible to directly vote in the election of officers and drafting of laws.

Detailed explanation-2: -The colonies were governed by elected magistrates. Formally subject to royal authority, New England settlements were essentially self-governing, and the colonists, not London officials or investors, determined the structure of political institutions.

Detailed explanation-3: -Explains that the puritans involuntarily created one of the first forms of democracy in new england: a theocracy, where priests rule at the hand of god.

Detailed explanation-4: -The colonies along the eastern coast of North America were formed under different types of charter, but most developed representative democratic governments to rule their territories.

Detailed explanation-5: -The New England town meeting and school district meeting are the only direct democracy institutions in the United States involving lawmaking by assembled voters.