Mayflower compact

noun

1. an agreement to establish a government, entered into by the Pilgrims in the cabin of the Mayflower on November 11, 1620.

Mayflower Compact

1. An agreement reached by the Pilgrims on the ship the in 1620, just before they landed at Plymouth Rock . The Mayflower Compact bound them to live in a civil society according to their own laws. It remained the fundamental law of their colony of Plymouth until the colony was absorbed into Massachusetts in the late seventeenth century.

Notes

The Mayflower Compact was the first written constitution in North America .

Example Sentences

There was no Mayflower compact with the bushmen when Englishmen decided to live with the natives in Australia.

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One of the chief paintings represents the signing of the memorable "Mayflower Compact."

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Upon this great monument are also representations of the landing of the Pilgrims, 16 their names, and the "Mayflower Compact."

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