市民院

市民院（ ）是弗吉尼亚殖民地时期弗吉尼亚州议会的下议院，弗吉尼亚州众议院的前身。它由維吉尼亞總督建立于1642年，使得弗吉尼亚州议会进入两院制，也成为新世界的第一个民选的立法机构。弗吉尼亚并入美国后，它成为弗吉尼亚州众议院。

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• [https://history.house.virginia.gov A History of the Virginia House of Delegates: Commemorating the First and Oldest Continuous English-Speaking Representative Legislative Assembly in the Western Hemisphere]
• [https://www.loc.gov/resource/lhbcb.0262a Generall Historie of Virginia] by Captaine John Smith
• [http://www.loc.gov/teachers/classroommaterials/presentationsandactivities/presentations/timeline/colonial/virginia/ Evolution of the Virginia Colony, 1610–1630] (Library of Congress)

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