1 A half step (or ''semitone'') is the distance from one key on the keyboard to the next adjacent key. 2  Key 1 to Key 2 is a half step since they are next to each other. 3  A half step is not always from a white key to a black key.
The Virginia House of Burgesses established in 1619 is considered the first representative assembly (government) in the US and the Americas.
The United States is a federal republic, a federation of states with a republican form of government, i.e., a representative democracy, where the citizens elect their representatives for fixed terms of office. Ben Franklin was asked by a woman What type of government do we have? as he left the ratification of the Constitution. His reply was A Republic Ma'am ... if you can k â¦ eep it!. Upon it's ratification, the Constitution of the United States of America established the United States as a Constitutional Republic.