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 (originally "Agreement Between the Settlers of New Plymouth"), dated Nov. 11, 1620, states in part as follows: We, whose names are underwritten … covenant and combine ...

Scholars agree that the signing of the Mayflower Compact helped to introduce in America the principles of religious freedom, the rule of law, and economic liberty that have shaped the United ...

A group of scholars meets this week to discuss the impact of the Mayflower Compact—signed 400 years ago last week, on Nov. 11, 1620—on the American concept of the rule of law. The Heritage ...

2020-11-28T21:03:47-05:00https://images.c-span.org/Files/7b6/20201128214425003_hd.jpgThe Heritage Foundation hosted a discussion about the Mayflower Compact, the ...

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 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 ...

also wrote to me. 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, and that the ...

Something had to be done to keep the group united. That something turned out to be the Mayflower Compact, the foundation stone of American democracy. That may sound like an absurdly grand claim ...

It is summarized as follows: “To recognize and honor the signing of the historic Mayflower Compact on Nov. 21, 1620, a monumental moment in human history, and to declare Nov. 21, 2024 ...

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 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 ...