Mayflower Compact

The Mayflower Compact is considered the first American Constitution.http://www.allabouthistory.org/mayflower-compact.htm Created by the passengers of the Mayflower, in part because of strife amongst themselveshttp://books.google.com/books?id=IZtKAAAAMAAJ&pg=PA200&dq=The+Journal+of+the+Pilgrims+at+Plymouth+in+New+England,+in+1620&output=text#c_top, it became the basis of self-government throughout the colonies.

Mayflower Compact

America's founding fathers were inspired by the Mayflower Compact. Written in 1620, the document laid the ground work for self-government.

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