The Mayflower Compact, signed on November 11, 1620, broke ranks with English political theory and practice, in which unelected monarchs issued decrees and ruled by divine right.

The Mayflower Compact was signed on Nov. 21, 1620 (Nov. 11 under the then-current Julian calendar), not just by noblemen, as had been the Magna Carta and the Declaration of Arbroath, but by 36 ...

It was this voyage, of course, that gave us one of the foundational documents in our history, the Mayflower Compact. It is easy to forget that the Compact, the first artifact of American self ...

The Mayflower Compact, brief as it is, is worthy of more attention than it has thus far received on this 400th anniversary, during a year in which so much attention has been focused on America’s ...

She accurately noted that before the Mayflower Compact was signed on November 11, the Strangers — who made up a third of the group — were ready to mutiny, ...

“That day, the settlers wrote the Mayflower Compact. Signed by 41 men on board, the compact was an agreement to cooperate for the general good of the colony,” a statement from Plymouth 400 said.

The Mayflower Compact and William Bradford's "Of Plimoth Plantation" are two documents that give a window into what the men and women of Plymouth Colony went through to survive, and they hold ...

The Mayflower Compact 400 Years Later. Written to stave off mutiny among the Pilgrims in 1620, the document remains a foundational example of democracy. By . John G. Turner. Share. Resize.

A copy of the Mayflower Compact is posted on the entrance to the Mayflower II, in Plymouth. The first colonists actually arrived in Provincetown, it's believed, not Plymouth, four centuries ago.

Guests on Wednesday flocked to the Plimoth Patuxet museum on the 400th anniversary of the signing of the Mayflower Compact. It was on board the Mayflower that the Pilgrims, during their five-and-a ...

Aboard the Mayflower, the Pilgrims pledged to frame “just and equal Laws” in their colony, signing the Mayflower Compact. Two centuries later, during the American Civil War, President Lincoln ...