<span>A key part of the Mayflower Compact was that the colonists agreed to govern their colony together for the common good.
These colonies still didn't want to be completely united under the same ruler, which is why A is incorrect. C is incorrect because this happened before they renounced their loyalty. The Mayflower Compact was signed in 1620, when colonists were coming to Plymouth.
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The 'mother country' to Brewster and Robinson was, of course, England and that was generally what was meant when the phrase came into use in the USA. They didn't coin the phrase themselves but probably read it in the works of a prominent Puritan of the day - Arthur Golding.
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