Mayflower+Compact

__**‍‍ Mayflower Compact **__ ‍ ‍

The Mayflower Compact was the first document established in America, at Plymouth colony. It was written by what’s known today as the pilgrims, who ventured from England on the Ship “The May Flower” to the United States to practice free Christianity. The Mayflower Compact was signed on November 11, 1620, by all 41 men of the 10 members on the ship, in what is now Provincetown Harbor. The Mayflower Compact was the first written laws in the new land that were written for the protection of the new settlers. The Document was put in place to settle a self governed state, until England or a larger branch of government could step in, and have a wider control over the new land.

**SIGNERS: **
 * John Carver || Edward Tilley || Degory Priest ||
 * William Bradford || John Tilley || Thomas Williams ||
 * Edward Winslow || Francis Cooke || Gilbert Winslow ||
 * William Brewster || Thomas Rogers || Edmund Margesson ||
 * <span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times','serif';">Isaac Allerton || <span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times','serif';">Thomas Tinker || <span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times','serif';">Peter Brown ||
 * <span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times','serif';">Myles Standish || <span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times','serif';">John Rigsdale || <span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times','serif';">Richard Britteridge ||
 * <span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times','serif';">John Alden || <span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times','serif';">Edward Fuller || <span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times','serif';">George Soule ||
 * <span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times','serif';">Samuel Fuller || <span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times','serif';">John Turner || <span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times','serif';">Richard Clarke ||
 * <span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times','serif';">Christopher Martin || <span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times','serif';">Francis Eaton || <span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times','serif';">Richard Gardinar ||
 * <span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times','serif';">William Mullins || <span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times','serif';">James Chilton || <span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times','serif';">John Allerton ||
 * <span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times','serif';">William White || <span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times','serif';">John Crackstone || <span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times','serif';">Thomas English ||
 * <span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times','serif';">Richard Warren || <span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times','serif';">John Billington || <span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times','serif';">Edward Doty ||
 * <span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times','serif';">John Howland || <span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times','serif';">Moses Fletcher || <span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times','serif';">Edward Leister ||
 * <span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times','serif';">Stephen Hopkins || <span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times','serif';">John Goodman ||  ||

**Contributions to the ideal of Democracy** The Mayflower compact had a large influence on our current democracy; John Quincy Adams said that it laid the foundation for the constitution. The compact introduced the social contract theory. With that theory and the fact that everybody signed the contract, it helped form the theory that for a proper democracy all people must participate. The contract also gave the pilgrims the right to self government, along with them still being under the rule of the king. This may have influenced the state and federal powers we have today. The compact stated that it is necessary for the government to be for the general good of the people which was the reason we separated from Britain and was one of the frameworks for forming the new government. The Mayflower Compact provided the rules and goals of the government which is very similar to the constitution.



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