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The Mayflower was based on majoritarian and the settlers' allegiance to the king. In the majoritarian government model, a certain majority (can be based on religion, race etc) assumes power and expects inherent rights.
Another answer for “it was” is it happen, be, even honestly
Answer: Our paper's science writer, whose column I read every week, recently reported on exoplanets.
Explanation: There are three ideas here.
1. Our paper's science writer
2. They recently reported on exoplanets
3. How I read their column every week.
Two of the ideas are included in the sentence (1 and 2), and the last simply needs to be modified.
"Whose" is a determiner and associates things with other things. In the last idea, we associate their column to them: whose column... Then, we add how I read it every week and say, "...whose column I read every week."