Duodecimviri fuerunt concilium duodecim hominum, die 29 Augusti 1641 a civibus Novae Nederlandiae electi ad suadendum Gulielmo Kieft, Directori Generali Novae Nederlandiae, de coniunctionibus cum indigenis ob caedem Nicolai Swits.[1] Concilium, quamquam non perenne, prima forma repraesentationalis democratiae in colonia fuit. Proxima concilia Octoviri et Novemviri appellata sunt.[2]
- ↑ "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." Jaap Jacobs, [http://books.google.com/books?id=Uex2budtSOUC&pg=RA1-PA136&dq |isbn=90-04-12906-5 New Netherland: A Dutch Colony In Seventeenth-Century America (2005).
- ↑ New Amsterdam Notable Citizens (Geni.com).