EMERGENCE OF USA
FOUNDATION OF AMERICAN COLONIES
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ways to limit democracy
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goverment put in place by Parliament
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colonial protests in self-government
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early colonial efforts at self-government
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Detailed explanation-1: -Virginia House of Burgesses, Town Hall Meetings and Mayflower Compact are the first forms of representative government/ democracy. Only elected representatives can levy taxes or make other decisions for the colonists.
Detailed explanation-2: -The Mayflower Compact continued the idea of law made by the people. This idea lies at the heart of democracy. From its crude beginning in Plymouth, self-government evolved into the town meetings of New England and larger local governments in colonial America.
Detailed explanation-3: -The Mayflower Compact was an early, successful attempt at democracy and undoubtedly played a role in future colonists seeking permanent independence from British rule and shaping the nation that eventually became the United States of America.
Detailed explanation-4: -The Mayflower Compact of 1620-a governing plan for the Massachusetts colony-followed the Greek traditions of direct democracy and majority agreement in making laws. The House of Burgesses influenced the founders to establish a representative system of government that met to debate issues, make laws, and pass taxes.
Detailed explanation-5: -The Mayflower Compact was drafted and signed aboard the Mayflower on November 21, 1620. The “plantation covenant” modeled after a Separatist church covenant, was a document that established a “Civil Body Politic” (a temporary government) until one could be more permanently established (ibid.).