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What is the statements is true about representative government institutions during the colonial period?
Limitations on an individual's absolute, centralized authority had been part of British political institutions since 1215 with King John's signing of the Magna Carta. As Virginia was founded in 1607 by a joint-stock company, the Virginia Company, its primary function was economical and thus its chartered organization and structure was built around a leadership body, not one absolute leader. The Mayflower Compact of 1620 created reciprocal civil bonds among the signatories, fostering a cooperative governing style. Future colonies were founded throughout the Enlightenment period, which applied Renaissance and Classical advances in Humanism and Reason to political systems and emphasized the natural freedom of mankind and thus the invalidity of political systems contradictory to this natural law. The merchant class saw representative government as a way of ensuring that their entrepreneurial exercise was neither restricted not forcefully redirected to benefit another individual. Farmers encouraged growth of representative systems as well, as they now owned the land they worked, not a King they had never met and who acted in his, not the landowner's interests. The British Crown's tax increase on Colonial goods to pay for the Seven Years War in distant India conflicted with the individualistic autonomy and expectation of mutual benefit inherent in these institutions and thus caused them to become more fervent in response. The Colonies then pursued joint efforts through contract to preserve this freedom, the contracts ensuring that the signatories' rights were respected and responsibilities agreed to.
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What events of the early American colonial experience led colonists to believe they would have representative government?
Bouston Tea Party and The Stamp Act
Why did Britain interfere with colonial government in the mid 1700s?
why did Britain interfere with colonial government in the mid-1700's
If you produced tobacco in one of the southern colonies in the late Colonial Era did you have a say in the colonial government?
If you produced tobacco in one of the southern colonies in the late Colonial Era you were a very important financial asset to your government. These tobacco producers did have a say in their colonial government for this reason.
What was the job of the house of burgesses?
The job of House of Burgesses was to decide laws and determine local taxation.
Which of the following powers were exercised by colonial representative governments?
the right to tax, regulate internal trade, and social behavior
