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Below is my best effort at cleaning up that portion of The Virginia Company that Dilidor constantly objects to and reverts. This information is contributive and important for those that seek to use WP as an encyclopaedia. It is admittedly conjecture on my part but my constant conflict with Dilidor seems to circulate around the axis of who is responsible for "founding democracy in America. My position is both, not one or the other. In the article Pilgrims (Plymouth Colony) in the last sentence he insists that it is THE seed. I have repeatedly changed it to A seed (with citations) which he reverts then threatens. Does this look OK, if so I will give it another go.  And leave you alone :) ~

The charters of the Virginia Company of London

 * The First charter of the Virginia Company of London -1606
 * The First Charter gave the company the authority to govern its own adventurers and servants through a ruling council in London composed of major shareholders in the enterprise. The members were nominated by the Company and appointed by the King. The council in England then directed the settlers to appoint their own local council, which proved ineffective,  the council had to obtain approval from London for expenditures and laws,m and limited the enterprise to 100 square miles


 * The Second charter of the Virginia Company of London -1609
 * The Second Charter expanded the area of the enterprise from sea to sea, and because the local governing council proved ineffective a Governor was appointed. This governor Thomas West, 3rd Baron De La Warr known as Lord Delaware set sail in 1610. The king delegated the governor of Virginia absolute power.


 * The Third Charter of the Virginia Company of London-1612
 * The Third Charter expanded territory eastward to include islands like Bermuda. The charter also includes a long list of Adventurers and Planters. An adventurer apparently being a description of a shareholder, and a Planter being an emigrant.


 * ”The Great Charter”
 * On November 18, 1618 the two major officers of the Virginia Company, Sir Thomas Smythe and Sir Edwin Sandys sent to Sir George Yeardley the newly appointed governor of Virginia a set of instructions that are often referred to as “The Great Charter”, though it was not issued by the King. This charter gave the colony self governance, which led to the establishment of a Council of State, appointed by the Governor, an elected General Assembly ( House of Burgesses), and provided that the colony would no longer be financed by shares, but by the commodity which had established itself as profitable: tobacco The birth of representative government in the United States can be traced from this “Great Charter” as it provided for self-governance from which the House of Burgesses and a General Council were created.


 * On 24 July 1621 the treasurer, council and company of adventurers and planters for the Virginia Company of London, passed an ordinance and constitution that codified the instructions sent in 1619. This ordinance officially created a self governing council that is the most enduring and important acts in the history of America The historian Charles. M Gayley believed that,  the charters of 1609 [and] 1618, founded representative government in Virginia, and by the  Charter of 1620, representative government in New England as well"


 * Dissolution of the Charter
 * The Jamestown Massacre which devastated that colony in 1622 brought unfavorable attention, particularly from King James I who had originally chartered the Company.  There was a period of debate in Britain between Company officers who wished to guard the original charter, and those who wanted the Company to be disbanded.  In 1624, the King dissolved the Company and made Virginia a Royal colony.