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Democratic Significance in Colonial America
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There was no significant political, economic, or social democracy in Colonial America. Early Colonial America showed no signs of democratic future till near the Revolution. Democracy did not exist in any of these aspects in early Colonial America. Politically democracy did not exist because the colonies were the King¡¯s colonies and was ruled by him. Economically democracy did not exist because there was a huge gap between the rich and the poor. Finally there was no sign of socially being democratic because of the huge inequality between the people of colonial America. Politically there was no sign of democracy in Colonial America. One might say that the representative assembly is one form of democracy in Colonial America, but this isn¡¯t true. The representative assembly was only attended by certain group of people, not all people were free to attend the representative assembly. Most of the assemblies only allowed male that were in their colony¡¯s religious order to attend and vote at an assembly. Also the colonies were very much influenced by their church they were under. In a sense this was going backwards to medieval times where church ruled the state. Again colonies only allowed active members of their church to vote or be in government. In Virginia the assemblies were carried out under the King¡¯s permission.
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