Novemviri fuerunt concilium civium et forma democratiae repraesentationalis in Nova Nederlandia constitutum. In locum Duodecimvirorum et Octovirorum, priorum conciliorum, substituit.[1] Viri annis 1647, 1649, 1650, et 1652 electi sunt. Die 26 Iulii 1649, undecim conciliares Petitionem Commonalitatis Novae Nederlandiae consignaverunt, quae Civitates Generales libertatem oeconomicam promovere et administrationem loci instituere, sicut administratio in Nederlandia, coloniam ex potestate Societatis Indiae Occidentalis Nederlandicae transferrens poposcit. Concilium facta est fundamenta gubernationis communis cum urbs Novum Amstelodamum diploma anno 1653 acciperet.[2]
- ↑ Jaap Jacobs, New Netherland: A Dutch Colony In Seventeenth-Century America (2005): "Both in the way it was set up and in the extent of its rights, the council of Twelve Men, as did the two later advisory bodies." ISBN 900412906-5.
- ↑ About the City Council (Concilium Urbis Novi Eboraci).
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