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Why the grand council set up the commons house of assembly?

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They had the power only to ratify or reject the statutes proposed by the Grand Council. Over the next half-century the assemblymen, seeking to make the lower house a mirror image of the English House of Commons, usurped enormous political power from the royal governor and council.

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