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The Mayflower Compact

Mayflower Pilgrims 1620
The Mayflower Compact established the Pilgrims' foundational covenant for self-governance based on Christian principles and mutual consent in the New World.

Signed at Cape Cod, 11 November 1620. Transcribed from F. N. Thorpe, ed., The Federal and State Constitutions (Washington, DC: GPO, 1909), via the Avalon Project.

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