Thus by one process or another every one of the colonies secured a popular assembly.

因此，通过这样或那样的程序，每一个殖民地都确保了一个民众集会。

Gradually a democracy evolved, with popular assemblies and courts of law.

民主逐渐演变， 有了大众集会和法院。

The other, leading toward democracy and self-government, was the growth in the power of the popular legislative assembly.

另一个导致民主和自治的是人民立法议会权力的增长。

In the autumn of 1791, Louis XVI was forced to accept a new constitution for France vesting the legislative power in a popular assembly.

1791 年秋，路易十六被迫接受法国的新宪法， 将立法权授予人民议会。

Congress answered by passing in 1787 the famous Northwest Ordinance providing for temporary territorial government to be followed by the creation of a popular assembly as soon as there were five thousand free males in any district.

作为回应，国会于 1787 年通过了著名的西北法令，规定一旦任何地区有 5000 名自由男性，便可建立临时领土政府，随后建立民众集会。