colonial Governments
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- Assembly
- A lawmaking body
- Legislation
- A making or passing of laws.
- militia
- A military force made up of volunteers.
- Delegates
- A member of an elected assembly.
- Constables
- A town officer in charge of keeping order.
- Treason
- The betrayal of one's country by giving help to an enemy.
- Richard Henry Lee
- Virginia Planter, Patriot, and signer of the Declaration of Independence.
- John Locke
- He was an English philosopher who believed that government was responsible for protecting people's natural rights.
- John Peter Zenger
- Newspaper printer whose trial in 1737 helped to establish the idea of freedom of the press.
- Phillis Wheatly
- Enslaved African American poet whose poems called for fair treatment for all people.