How was the Mayflower Compact and important step in the development of American ...
How was the Mayflower Compact and important step in the development of American democracy?
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The main thesis of the Mayflower Compact (signed in 1620) is that a government possesses authority only until the governed people agree with it. It was a sort of a contract: the colonists delegated the government with a right to issue laws and agreed to obey the laws adopted by it, but only until they were consent with the governments actions.