At this time, England took much more control of things in Virginia, restricting the powers of the House of Burgesses. Through the years leading up to the Revolutionary War, many leaders of the move toward independence made their names in the House of Burgesses.
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The Virginia House of Burgesses /ˈbɜrdʒəsɪz/ was the first legislative assembly of elected representatives in North America.
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From 1619 to 1776, the legislature of Virginia was the House of Burgesses, which governed in conjunction with a colonial governor.
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Although the first session was cut short because of an outbreak of malaria, the House of Burgesses soon became a symbol of representative government. The 22 members of the House of Burgesses were elected by the colony as a whole, or actually men over 17 who also owned land. Royally appointed councillors (of which there were usually six) and governor rounded out the legislature.
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The Virginia House of Burgesses. The first legislature anywhere in the English colonies in America was in Virginia. This was the House of Burgesses, and it first met on July 30, 1619, at a church in Jamestown. Its first order of business was to set a minimum price for the sale of tobacco.
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In 1774, when the House of Burgesses began to support resistance to the Crown, Virginia's royal governor, John Murray, earl of Dunmore, dissolved it. The Virginia Constitution of 1776 created a new General Assembly that replaced the governor's Council with an elected. and the House of Burgesses with an elected. .
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In 1699, the seat of the House of Burgesses was moved from Jamestown to Middle Plantation, soon renamed Williamsburg. The Burgesses met there, first (1700 to 1704) in the Great Hall of what is now called the Wren Building at the College of William and Mary, while the Capitol was under construction.
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for the independent Commonwealth of Virginia. In 1776 the House of Burgesses formally dissolved, and the Virginia Constitution of 1776 created a new General Assembly composed of an elected Senate and an elected House of Delegates. The House of Delegates was the House of Burgesses by another name.
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The House of Burgesses was an assembly of elected representatives from Virginia that met from 1643 to 1776. This democratically elected legislative body was the first of its kind in English North America. From 1619 until 1643, elected burgesses met in unicameral session with the governor and the royally appointed governor's Council; after 1643, the burgesses met separately as the lower house of the. of Virginia.
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Jamestown remained the capital of the Virginia colony until 1699; from 1699 until its dissolution the capital was in Williamsburg. The word  Burgess  means an elected or appointed official of a municipality, or the representative of a borough in the English House of Commons.
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who made up house of burgesses
Virginia's royal governor made up house of Burgesses. The Virginia's royal governor made up house of Burgesses.