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What is the house of burgesses?

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What is the house of burgesses?

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The House of Burgess was the lower house in the legislative assembly and was established in the New World in the Colony of Virginia in 1619. Burgess originally meant a free man of a borough. Later its meaning became an elected or appointed official of a municipality.

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