In the Colonial Era, developments such as the New England town meetings and the establishment of the Virginia House of Burgesses represented steps in the growth of representative democracy.
The Mayflower Compact is important to the concept of a democratic society because it represents a clear step toward self-government.
Also, they're all efforts of colonial Americans to use democratic processes in government.
The May flower compact, New England town meetings, and the Virginia House of Burgesses were examples of Early colonial efforts made by American settlers to show their resolve of democratic self governance away from the kind of Governance been experienced by the Americans under the British system of Government which was not democratic because the citizens had no role to play in the affairs of the state and the laws were imposed on the citizens/settlers.
The Mayflower was the first document that established self government in the new world. and this document was made my English settlers who came to the new world ( America ) on Mayflower mainly because they were fleeing persecution in England
