The Mayflower Compact was purposely created to serves as a guiding law and principles to the colonists in 1620. It was built on the principle of majority rule and self-governance of the colony by the settlers.
Hence, Mayflower Compact is the colonial document that eventually served as a model for the establishment of self-government under the articles of confederation. This is because it brought the idea of self-governance in articles of Confederation was based upon.
