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Jamestown Virginia was colonized by the English in order to get rich
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Starving when they were looking for gold so the numbers went from 400 to 65
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Virginia company head rights system offered fifty acres of land to each person that a settler bought to bring over
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First shipment of the money maker(tobacco) arrived in Jamestown
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Virgina produced 200 thousand pounds of tobacco making them rich
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30 million pounds of tobacco were sold per year which made the English colony so profitible
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Massachusetts colony arrived in Massachusetts Bay looking to make money
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Gave people the right to pubicly address their representatives, privelty advise them, or declare their sentiments
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Justice Brandeis wrote that the protection of sppech was essential to effective democracy
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Delcared that there must be the opprotunity for free politiical discussion, holding officials acountable for people
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Public opinion chaneled into effective govenmental action between people and their representatives
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Communication was between people and those who have commited the excersize of the powers of government
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The Government prevents corruption or intrest in it increases
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A very small amount of people actually have a say in political changes
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4/5 people said that politics were too based off of money
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People call it the rich system because the rich declare what is going to happen
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Wealth influences votes because large donations drown out the voices of the public, so who ever has a bigger donation the more they will be heard