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Position:Home>History> Yet another history question!!?? (please help?)?Question: Yet another history question!!!?!? (please help!?)!? Ok so the mayflower compact was written in the time it was written in because!? i'm guessing because they needed the document for organization!?! and The point that the mayflower compact is trying to convey is creating together one body/government!? do you know!?Www@QuestionHome@Com
Best Answer - Chosen by Asker: You are pretty much right!. The Mayflower Compact was written on the Mayflower - the Pilgrims were trying to create some sort of governing body to ensure peace & order when they landed!. The following is an excerpt from Wikipedia: "The Mayflower was originally bound for the mouth of the Hudson River, in land granted in a patent from the Crown to the London Virginia Company!. The decision was made instead to land further north, in what is now Massachusetts!. This inspired some of the "strangers" (colonists who were not members of the congregation of religious dissenters leading the expedition) to proclaim that since the settlement would not be made in the agreed-upon Virginia territory, they "would use their own liberty; for none had power to command them!.!.!.!."[3] To prevent this, many of the other colonists decided to establish a government!. The Mayflower landed at Plymouth (so named by Captain John Smith earlier) in December 1620!. The Mayflower Compact was based simultaneously upon a majoritarian model (even though the signers were not in the majority) and the settlers' allegiance to the king!. It was in essence a social contract in which the settlers consented to follow the compact's rules and regulations for the sake of survival!." Www@QuestionHome@Com Hi there! I'm not great at history, but I'll give you a link to a site that has info with reasons for the compact =) http://en!.wikipedia!.org/wiki/Mayflower_c!.!.!. Good luck!Www@QuestionHome@Com the compact was not written in regards to politics so much but to have religious freedomWww@QuestionHome@Com umm duh Www@QuestionHome@Com |