"In volume I Tocqueville showed how deeply ordinary Americans were involved in the local and state management of their political affairs, and how this gave them real knowledge and experience about government." DK
I tend to go with Bailyn's account, in Ideological Origins; he more or less describes the situation here, back then, before 1776, but the same can be said for after, in my judgment, wherein the average colonial or local legislator is a rough, rural, American yoeman (not an English gentleman), who knows, and learns, doodly squat about government, really.
He is also basically a solicitor advocate only for the specific agenda he has been given as a local representative, and cannot go outside that agenda without running afoul of his warrant as a representative.
He is also basically a solicitor advocate only for the specific agenda he has been given as a local representative, and cannot go outside that agenda without running afoul of his warrant as a representative.
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