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 ======The Mayflower Compact======  ======The Mayflower Compact====== 
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-Source: [[Mayflower Compact|https://www.plimoth.org/learn/just-kids/homework-help/mayflower-and-mayflower-compact]]+Source: [[https://www.plimoth.org/learn/just-kids/homework-help/mayflower-and-mayflower-compact|Mayflower Compact]]
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 **The text of the Mayflower Compact:** **The text of the Mayflower Compact:**
  
-    In the name of God, Amen. We whose names are underwritten, the loyal subjects of our dread Sovereign Lord King James, by the Grace of God of Great Britain, France, and Ireland King, Defender of the Faith, etc.+In the name of God, Amen. We whose names are underwritten, the loyal subjects of our dread Sovereign Lord King James, by the Grace of God of Great Britain, France, and Ireland King, Defender of the Faith, etc.
  
-    Having undertaken for the Glory of God and advancement of the Christian Faith and Honour of our King and Country, a Voyage to plant the First Colony in the Northern Parts of Virginia, do by these presents solemnly and mutually in the presence of God and one of another, Covenant and Combine ourselves together in a Civil Body Politic, for our better ordering and preservation and furtherance of the ends aforesaid; and by virtue hereof to enact, constitute and frame such just and equal Laws, Ordinances, Acts, Constitutions and Offices from time to time, as shall be thought most meet and convenient for the general good of the Colony, unto which we promise all due submission and obedience. In witness whereof we have hereunder subscribed our names at Cape Cod, the 11th of November, in the year of the reign of our Sovereign Lord King James, of England, France and Ireland the eighteenth, and of Scotland the fifty-fourth. Anno Domini 1620. +Having undertaken for the Glory of God and advancement of the Christian Faith and Honour of our King and Country, a Voyage to plant the First Colony in the Northern Parts of Virginia, do by these presents solemnly and mutually in the presence of God and one of another, Covenant and Combine ourselves together in a Civil Body Politic, for our better ordering and preservation and furtherance of the ends aforesaid; and by virtue hereof to enact, constitute and frame such just and equal Laws, Ordinances, Acts, Constitutions and Offices from time to time, as shall be thought most meet and convenient for the general good of the Colony, unto which we promise all due submission and obedience. In witness whereof we have hereunder subscribed our names at Cape Cod, the 11th of November, in the year of the reign of our Sovereign Lord King James, of England, France and Ireland the eighteenth, and of Scotland the fifty-fourth. Anno Domini 1620. 
  
 (William Bradford, Of Plymouth Plantation, ed. Samuel Morison, 75-6.) See the Mayflower Compact in William Bradford's hand. (William Bradford, Of Plymouth Plantation, ed. Samuel Morison, 75-6.) See the Mayflower Compact in William Bradford's hand.
-     John Carver    Edward Tilly    Digery Priest + 
-     William Bradford John Tilly Thomas Williams +John Carver    Edward Tilly    Digery Priest \ 
-     Edward Winslow Francis Cooke Gilbert Winslow +William Bradford John Tilly Thomas Williams \ 
-     William Brewster Thomas Rogers   Edmund Margeson +Edward Winslow Francis Cooke Gilbert Winslow \ 
-     Isaac Allerton Thomas Tinker Peter Brown +William Brewster Thomas Rogers   Edmund Margeson \ 
-     Miles Standish John Rigdale Richard Bitteridge +Isaac Allerton Thomas Tinker Peter Brown \ 
-     John Alden Edward Fuller George Soule +Miles Standish John Rigdale Richard Bitteridge \ 
-     Samuel Fuller John Turner Richard Clark +John Alden Edward Fuller George Soule \ 
-     Christopher Martin Francis Eaton Richard Gardiner +Samuel Fuller John Turner Richard Clark \ 
-     William Mullins James Chilton John Allerton +Christopher Martin Francis Eaton Richard Gardiner \ 
-     William White John Craxton Thomas English +William Mullins James Chilton John Allerton \ 
-     Richard Warren John Billington Edward Doten +William White John Craxton Thomas English \ 
-     John Howland Moses Fletcher Edward Leister +Richard Warren John Billington Edward Doten \ 
-     Stephen Hopkins John Goodman+John Howland Moses Fletcher Edward Leister \ 
 +Stephen Hopkins John Goodman \
  
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