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.

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 ...

The Mayflower Compact was revolutionary in that it was the first example of government by consent of the governed in the New World. The foundational ideals of liberty and self-government ...

The Heritage Foundation hosted a discussion about the Mayflower Compact, the document signed by the Mayflower passengers shortly before their arrival in North America in 1620. Scholars talked ...

Ultimately, the Mayflower Compact forms part of the opening pages in the story of the American Founding. It did not divorce the Pilgrims from England or its king, but it was instead a rejection of ...

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 ...

A group of scholars explored the history of the Mayflower Compact, the document signed by the Mayflower passengers shortly before their arrival in North America in 1620, and what lessons can be ...

“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.

On December 18, 1620, the Mayflower landed at Plymouth Harbor. That was 399 years ago! Sorry readers, I got excited and didn’t want to wait until December 2020 to talk about this historic event.

A year before the Pilgrims made their famed journey to New England, signing the “Mayflower Compact” and thus inaugurating so many of the myths that we believe about our democratic origins, a ...

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.

In 1620, the Mayflower ship set sail from Plymouth, England on 16 September. Today that memory is being recreated by a new ship setting sail, but this one doesn't have any passengers.