Because the senate was one vote short
The most serious problem faced by settlers in Virginia when they first arrived was a lack of food, since the land was difficult to farm and the Natives could be hostile. Although they soon grew enough tobacco to be able to trade efficiently.
The Enlightenment, also known as the Age of Reason, was an intellectual and cultural movement in the eighteenth century that emphasized reason over superstition and science over blind faith. Empiricism promotes the idea that knowledge comes from experience and observation of the world.
