The Mayflower Compact was written when the Pilgrims realized that they were miles north of where they were supposed to be and where there were laws already in place. It was to keep the peace, stating that everyone would follow the laws of Parliment. It was the great-uncle of the Constitution.
The Mayflower compact was written for the colony in Massachusetts
There is no surviving original of the Mayflower Compact. The oldest surviving handwritten copy was penned by William Bradford's in 1646. It is currently in the State Library of Massachusetts.
The signers of the mayflower compact of 1620 were brought up with worshipping God and didn't think of not living without the doctrine. I think they would have been appalled by it.
The Mayflower of Colonial America was not a state; it was the ship that transported political Separatists from Plymouth, England to anchor at Cape Cod (in what is now Plymouth, Massachusetts.)
William Bradford's handwritten manuscript is allegedly kept in a vault at the State Library of Massachusetts.
that's when the pilgrams came to America
government under law and the consent of the governed.
The documents that influenced ideas about government include: - Magna Carta - The Constitution - English Bill of Rights - Mayflower Compact - Declaration of Independence - State Constitutions - Virginia Statute for Religious Freedom
The compact was written AFTER they had landed so it doesn't state where they wanted to be located. Their intent was to land near Jamestown in VA, but they were blown off course by a storm and ended up in Mass.
The Mayflower Compact was a document written in 1620 that set up the government of Plymouth Colony. Essentially, the Compact stated that the colonists would establish laws for the good of all of them, and everyone there would abide by the laws.
There is a city in Arkansas by the name of Mayflower.
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