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For reason did a group of colonists agree to this compact?

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The colonists agreed to the Mayflower Compact because they wanted to have a set idea of what the government system would be like when they came to the new world. They wanted religious freedom away from the pursuecutions of the Catholic Church. So they signed the compact in order to have in writting a loose goal of what the system would be like in the New World.

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Answer: to form a social contract among themselves

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