Was the U.S Truly Considered a Democracy at Its Birth

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engraving is from the first meeting of the Virginia House of Burgesses in 1619. This legislature (lawmaker) was made up of representatives chosen by the people.” The provisions included a system of self government which has the colonists to selected representatives to govern in the legislative assembly. This body of colonists was called the House of Burgesses. The arrangement allowed Virginia to retain control over the colony while giving the colonists some measure of self government and the ability to pass their own laws. The colony would be represented by the people, its members being directly elected. Though having citizens choose their representatives is democratic those who are given a voice were only rich, white,Christian men. It was not integrated and rights were only given to those who fit the qualifications. Therefore non-democratic because minorities weren’t qualified as a voice.

In conclusion,it is clear that America was not a democratic haven during this point of time.

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The American Revolution had a profound but ambiguous effect on the history of slavery in the United States. It established the terms of a ferocious debate, without precedent in history, over the morality of slavery itself. It resulted in the creation of the first sizable communities of free blacks in the United States. It made slavery into a sectional institution by abolishing or restricting it in the North while protecting it in the South. And by defining a "citizen" of the new nation as the bearer of certain basic rights, it definitively established the status of American slaves as rightless.