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House of Burgesses

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House of Burgesses
n.
The lower house of the legislature in colonial Virginia.
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Noun1.House of Burgesses - the lower house of legislature in colonial Virginia
house - an official assembly having legislative powers; "a bicameral legislature has two houses"
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Twelve years later they created the House of Burgesses, which became the Virginia General Assembly, the oldest legislature in the country.
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Seeing all of this, Thomas Jefferson, while serving in the Virginia House of Burgesses, called for separation between church and state and wrote the Virginia Bill for Religious Freedom, which became law principally through the efforts of his close friend and colleague, James Madison, and which paved the way for the adoption of the Religion Clauses in the First Amendment.
Religion and schools by Lieberman, David / Church & State
His resolutions, including the non-exportation resolution that had failed before, were passed by the Fairfax County Convention--from there they made their way to the House of Burgesses (the Virginia Resolves of August 1774), and thence to the Continental Congress (the Resolves of the Continental Congress, October 1774).
Father of the Bill of Rights: by drafting the Virginia Declaration of ... by Gilmore, Jodie / The New American
 
 
 
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