A strange way of running things...

Today, Sophie and I went to a Town Hall Meeting. We had to watch through the window, because Sophie wasn’t allowed in because she is female. Most of the people in the council were influential religious figures, and freemen (any male puritan that was the head of a household). Everyone in the council was religious, and it became very clear to me that there Church and State were not separated, but they were one.

The people in the council did not all seem very intelligent. There were “average-joes” spreading their opinions in the meeting. Uneducated people with little money should not be making such big governmental decisions. In Virginia, we have the House of Burgesses. It is a legislative elected representative body, which mostly consists of intelligent wealthy plantation owners, such as my father. They have the most influence on the governmental decisions. Small farm owners are under us, then landless white men. Indentured servants are below them, and slaves are at the very bottom of the southern hierarchy. 

I asked Sophie “who in their right mind would let unintelligent, highly religious, average income people control their government?” She tired to tell me that a government that has different perspectives from a variety of people would be better then a government that only has one viewpoint. I still don’t believe that New England has a stable government system.

Would you really want this person making some of the most important governmental decisions for you?