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George Bancroft, History of the Colonization of the United States, Vol. 1, 17th edition., Chapter VI (search)
desiring, at the same time, that an assembly might be convened to consider his proposal. Burk, II. 19,20. Hening, i. 129. This is the first recognition, on the part of a Stuart, of a representative assembly in America Hitherto, the king had, fortunately for the colony, Chap. VI.} found no time to take order for its government. His zeal for an exclusive contract led him to observe and to sanction the existence of an elective legislature. The assembly, in its answer, acquiesced 1628. Mar. 26. in the royal monopoly, but protested against its being farmed out to individuals. The independent reply of the assembly was signed by the governor, by five members of the council, and by thirty-one burgesses. The Virginians, happier than the people of England, enjoyed a faithful representative government, and, through the resident planters who composed the council, they repeatedly elected their own governor. When West designed to embark for Europe, his place was supplied by election.