American Government and Politics Today
The Colonial Background. In 1607, the English government established Jamestown, Virginia, where colonists set up a representative assemblyThe separatists who sailed on the Mayflower fled the Church of England for the New World, where they could practice their religious beliefsTheir Mayflower Compact (1620) set forth the idea of consent of the governed and was a prototype for American compacts to comeThe number of colonies increased, and each one created its own set of laws Colonists, separat1146
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