...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,...the colony, unto which we promise all due submission and obedience." They then proceeded to elect a Governor and choose subordinate officers. Thus did these...

...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,...the colony, unto which we promise all due submission and obedience." They then proceeded to elect a Governor and choose subordinate officers. Thus did these...

...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,...the colony, unto which we promise all due submission and obedience." They then proceeded to elect a Governor and choose subordinate officers. Thus did these...

...Preservation, and Furtherance of the ends aforesaid ; and by Virtue hereof, to enact, constitute, and frame just and equal laws, ordinances, Acts, Constitutions,...all due Submission and Obedience. In witness whereof wo have hercunder subscribed our Names at Cape Cod, the eleventh of November, in the year of the Reign...

...constitute, and frame such just and equal laws, ordinances, acts, constitutions, offices, from time to time, as shall be thought most meet and convenient...the colony: unto which we promise all due submission and obedience. ..." The compact was signed by every adult male passenger on the Mayflower except for...

...northern parts of Virginia, do by these presents solemnly and mutually in the presence of God, and one of another, covenant and combine ourselves together into...the colony: unto which we promise all due submission and obedience. |ln ontneBB faljgreof we have hereunder subscribed our names at Cape Cod the *11 of...

...presence of God and one another, covenant and combine ourselves together into a civil Body Politick, for our better Ordering and Preservation, and Furtherance...the Colony; unto which we promise all due Submission and Obedience.40 Clearly, the Pilgrims brought with them from the Old World not only their earthly...

...aforesaid; and by virtue hereof do enact, constitute, and frame such just and equal Laws, Ordiances, Acts, Constitutions, and Offices, from time to time,...the Colony; unto which we promise all due submission and obedience. . . ." This is the same pledge of comradeship, of responsible cooperation in a joint...

...enact, constitute and frame such just and equal laws, ordinances, acts constitution, offices from time to time as shall be thought most meet and convenient...the colony; unto which we promise all due submission and obedience. Even before immigration, historian Barry Shain reminds us, the first colonists sought...

...frame such just and equal laws, ordinances, acts, constimtions, offices, from time to time, as shall he thought most meet and convenient for the general good of the colony, unto which we promise all due suhmission and . ihedience, In wimess whereof we have hereunder suhscrihed our names,18 Cape Cod 1...