When they were dissolved by the Governor for supporting Boston's position on the Townshend Acts, the House of Burgesses set up a council to continue protests at the _____________ ____________.
The House of Burgesses was a legislature that started out in Jamestown but was later moved to Williamsburg. The House of Burgesses gave the Americans 157 years of head start in democracy. That's why when it got time to the Declaration of Independence, they were handling the democratic government quite well.
