What was the purpose if the mayflower compact

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Ocean · Answer 1 · 2019-04-29T22:25:43+0000

The rest of the Mayflower Compact is very short. It simply bound the signers into a "Civil Body Politic" for the purpose of passing "just and equal Laws . . . for the general good of the Colony." But those few words expressed the idea of self-government for the first time in the New World.

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