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The Mayflower Compact
i n t h e n a m e o f g o d, a m e n .
We, whose names are underwritten, the Loyal Subjects of our dread Sovereign Lord King James, by the Grace of God, of Great Britain, France, and
Ireland, King, Defender of the Faith, &c. Having undertaken for the Glory
of God, and Advancement of the Christian Faith, and the Honour of our
King and Country, a Voyage to plant the first colony in the northern Parts
of Virginia; Do by these Presents, solemnly and mutually in the Presence
of God and one another, covenant and combine ourselves together into a
civil Body Politick, for our better Ordering and Preservation, and Furtherance of the Ends aforesaid; And by Virtue hereof do enact, constitute,
and frame, such just and equal Laws, Ordinances, Acts, Constitutions,
and Offices, from time to time, as shall be thought most meet and convenient for the general Good of the Colony; unto which we promise all
due Submission and Obedience. In WITNESS whereof we have hereunto
subscribed our names at Cape Cod the eleventh of November, in the Reign
of our Sovereign Lord King James of England, France, and Ireland, the eighteenth and of Scotland, the fifty-fourth. Anno Domini, 1620.
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