what is colonial legislature and how did it impact the U.S. constitution?
Answer Generally the term colonial legislature means a governing body of representatives selected to lead one of the original thirteen colonies. Sometimes they were selected by the residents of the colony as with the House of Burgesses in Virginia, other times they were selected by the British crown as in Georgia. They made laws for the colony, settled disputes, and organized how the economics of the colony were to be organized. These various colonial legislatures impacted the united States Constitution in the following ways: 1. They established the principle of having a WRITTEN constitution. 2. They offered valuable experience for those men that would later participate in the Constitutional Convention held in Philadelphia in 1787. 3. They established the principle that the leaders of a colony were responsible to the PEOPLE of the colony. 4. They established the precedent of having a Bill of Rights added to their colonial constitutions thus giving the anti-federalists the idea to add a
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