Mayflower Compact
Footnotes from Foundations in Liberty.
1
Donald S. Lutz, Colonial Origins of the American Constitution, 31.
2
William Bradford, Of Plymouth Plantation, 1620–1647, ed. Samuel Eliot Morison (New York: Modern Library, 1967), 75–76.
3
Landed in what is now Massachusetts
4
First document of self-governance in the New World; consent of the governed
5
National Park Service, “Pilgrims,” nps.gov.