<span>In this document, 41 males signed to agree on participating in a government which all Puritans would definitely follow. </span> Hope this helps. :)
The Mayflower Compact served as the first ruling document in the colony of Plymouth. The male pilgrims of the Mayflower, involving adventurers, tradesmen and separatist Puritans signed this document. The main reason why they signed this document was that the Puritans were fleeing from ecclesiastical oppression by James, the then King of England. The Puritans decided to form their own government, while still declaring their loyalty to the British Crown.
B. Cooperative federalism has been practiced in the US since 1860.
Cooperative federalism, or the concept of federalism in which local, state, and federal governments work together to create policies, replaced dual federalism in the 1930s.