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work_gaqxa754abcgbauq7lxidetf6q	Richard A. Clucas	Introduction: The Enduring Relevance of the State Assemblies	2019	4	.pdf	application/pdf	3642	310	58	Assembly on July 30, 2019, this is a particularly opportune time to reflect on the relevance of state legislatures we know today about state-legislative politics, provide directions for future research, and shine light on the importance founding of the nation, these colonial assemblies were transformed into state legislatures, experiencing little change in include colonial assemblies in the study of state legislatures. Before the Revolution, state legislatures were at the center of American government, a place in which they remained far into the new Republic. American political development to study state legislatures. state legislatures more visible, the efforts by the state assemblies to shape American politics are not new. of state legislatures in American politics over time. The revolutionary generation often is credited with creating democracy in America, but it was the colonial assemblies that first established representative government in the the colonial assemblies to state legislatures.	./cache/work_gaqxa754abcgbauq7lxidetf6q.pdf	./txt/work_gaqxa754abcgbauq7lxidetf6q.txt