The Mayflower Compact was intended to lay out provisions for the governing of the Plymouth Colony in Massachusetts. It was created by English settlers who arrived at Massachusetts Bay in order to escape religious persecution, and this compact served as an early form of self-governing.
It would be an "authoritarian form of government" that forms when an individual assumes absolute power by seizing control illegally, <span>often with the support of the lower classes, since this usually occurs when there is a power vacuum. </span>
