Essay On Mayflower Compact

The Mayflower ship carried about 102 English Puritans to the new world to escape the religious persecutions. Historians discovered that the voyage took about 66 days due to the harsh weather. Also, the ship should have landed in New York, but instead they were pushed by the wind to Cape Cod, Massachusetts. The Puritans spent the first winter on the ship while they built their homes. The Puritans later settled in the Plymouth harbor. Only half of the crew survived the harsh winter in the new world. When the weather approved, they finally established the Plymouth colony, and the colony grew from less than 100 to over 3,000 people in a year. In 1620 Common Era, the Puritans decided to create a series of laws that everyone must obey and follow it. On the eleventh of November 1620 Common Era signed by 41 puritan's colonists the Mayflower Compact that ensured the proper ordering of the

The Mayflower Compact provided the Plymouth colony with a simple constitution that show "the general court of all freemen met several times a year" in order to elect a government, his assistants, and pass laws for the Plymouth colony ("Mayflower Compact 1620" internet). The two branches, which was created by the Mayflower Compact was the executive and legislative branches. The Mayflower Compact gave the government the right "execute laws and having power arrest" while the general court "claimed the sole role right to tax, declare war, and frame legislation" this technique helped the Puritan's fathers balance out the powers between executive and legislative branch, rather than one branch hold all the powers (" Mayflower Compact" internet). Puritans in the Plymouth colony made sure that in order to avoid problems or corruption in the government, everyone must obey and follow the