They get 2 senators per state
In April, 1619, GOVERNOR GEORGE YEARDLEY arrived in Virginia from England and announced that the Virginia Company had voted to abolish martial law and create a legislative assembly. It became the House of Burgesses — the first legislative assembly in the American colonies. The first assembly met on July 30, 1619, in the church at Jamestown. Present were Governor Yeardley, Council, and 22 burgesses representing 11 plantations (or settlements) Burgesses were elected representatives. Only white men who owned a specific amount of property were eligible to vote for Burgesses.
<u>B. The Fourteenth </u>
The 14th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution was ratified in 1868, during the Reconstruction era. It granted some civil and legal rights for black Americans as well as any other American citizen. In Section 1, it gives citizenship to all persons born or naturalized in the United States, which also included black people, guarantees all citizens the right of a due process of law and equal protection of the laws.
<span>laissez-faire capitalism</span>
