For much of American history, the Mayflower Compact—as it came to be called—has been considered a foundational document. John Quincy Adams praised it as the “original social compact,” an ...

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 ...

With the Thanksgiving season upon us, a group of scholars is meeting today to discuss the Mayflower Compact, in a webinar series honoring the 400th anniversary of the signing of this ...

The first event in the series, “The Mayflower Compact and the Foundations of Religious Liberty,” challenges these jaded narratives. “The radical Left would like to offer 1619, the year when ...

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 ...

The Mayflower Compact was their solution — a document based on the idea that government is a form of covenant and must be derived from the consent of the governed. So, why should we care about ...

After a hard trip across the Atlantic, the Mayflower initially anchored on November 11 in what became Provincetown Harbor, Cape Cod. At this point, it was decided a Compact should be agreed upon ...

It soon became apparent they needed laws for their community in the New World. The Mayflower Compact was their solution—a document based on the idea that government is a form of covenant and ...

The Mayflower Compact is now considered the first “constitution” of what would, more than 150 years later, become the United States of America.