SETTLING NORTH AMERICA 1497 1732
THE 13 COLONIES LIFE IN EARLY AMERICA
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It was the first constitution in the colonies
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it had a form of self-government
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in was the first elected legislative assembly in the colonies
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none of these
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Detailed explanation-1: -The Compact explains that the colonists would write and enact “laws, ordinances, acts, constitutions, and offices … for the general good of the colony.” The colonists would be bound to those laws, and would additionally pledge to work together to build a single society.
Detailed explanation-2: -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.
Detailed explanation-3: -In basic terms, the Mayflower Compact was a social contract whereby the 41men who signed it agreed to abide by the rules and regulations of the new government in order to ensure civil order and their own survival.
Detailed explanation-4: -Mayflower Compact, document signed on the English ship Mayflower on November 21 [November 11, Old Style], 1620, prior to its landing at Plymouth, Massachusetts. It was the first framework of government written and enacted in the territory that is now the United States of America.
Detailed explanation-5: -The Mayflower Compact, originally titled Agreement Between the Settlers of New Plymouth, was the first governing document of Plymouth Colony.