In order to advance social welfare legislation, he started nationalizing regulation of the industry in order to ensure the well-being of the workers who had many problems with being exploited in factories. He also worked with creating unions in order to protect the rights of the workers and started going towards secularization of the country in order to ensure equal rights for everyone.
The similarity between the Mayflower Compact, and the Fundamental Orders of Connecticut is that in both documents it says that thy will be helped by G-d. The Mayflower Compact only states that a group of people will be going to set up a colony were a government and a church would be set up. The Mayflower Compact was the first model of government designed and used in the colonies. Though this first representative assembly in America had little power, it marked the beginning of self-government in colonial America.
They either didn't know about it until after the fact, or they were afraid of what would happen once they were caught