Question

What was the purpose of the Mayflower Compact?

Answer 1

Answer:

The Mayflower Compact was needed to institute a government with just and equal laws.

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Answer 2

Answer:

The Mayflower Compact was needed to institute a government with just and equal laws.

Explanation:

The Mayflower Compact was a document signed on November 11, 1620, in which the Pilgrim Fathers (English religious dissidents who arrived in North America on the Mayflower barge) agreed with the Virginia company to provide them with internal self-government.

Upon arrival in North America, a conflict arose among the English Puritans. Due to an error in the ship’s course, the colonists were north of the piece of land that the company allocated to them. Therefore, many of them believed that the contract with the Virginia company had lost force. As a result of negotiations on November 11, 1620, 41 people, heads of all families who arrived in America, signed a written agreement on board of the Mayflower. In this document, they expressed their intention to establish their own colony and pledged to obey the laws.

This document became the first regulatory source of American constitutionalism, and also became a clear confirmation of the fairly independent attitude of the colonists who did not want to obey external charters.