SETTLING NORTH AMERICA 1497 1732
FOUNDING OF THE NEW ENGLAND COLONIES
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The Constitution
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The Declaration of Independence
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The Bill of Rights
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The Treaty of France
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Detailed explanation-1: -The similarity of the two documents is that both are based on the consent of the people they governed.
Detailed explanation-2: -Finally, as the first written constitution in the New World, the Mayflower Compact laid the foundations for two other revolutionary documents: the Declaration of Independence, which stated that governments derive their powers “from the consent of the governed, ” and the Constitution.
Detailed explanation-3: -The Mayflower Compact-once called the “Plymouth Combination”-is the first constitution known to have been written in the New World. Drafted aboard the Mayflower before the Pilgrims from Holland and their fellow travelers landed in North America, it was signed on November 11, 1620, by the 41 men on the ship.
Detailed explanation-4: -The Mayflower Compact was not a constitution but rather an adaptation of a Puritan church covenant to a civil situation. Furthermore, as a provisional instrument adopted solely by the colonists, the document did not solve the matter of their questionable legal rights to the land they settled.