MAYFLOWER COMPACT MAYFLOWER COMPACT U.S CONSTITUTION COLONIES U.S GOVERNMENT AND CONSTITUTION GLOBAL RELATIONS NOVEMBER 11 1620 IN THE NAME OF GOD AMEN 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 OFFICERS 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 MR JOHN CARVER MR WILLIAM BRADFORD MR EDWARD WINSLOW MR WILLIAM BREWSTER ISAAC ALLERTON MYLES STANDISH JOHN ALDEN JOHN TURNER FRANCIS EATON JAMES CHILTON JOHN CRAXTON JOHN BILLINGTON JOSES FLETCHER JOHN GOODMAN MR SAMUEL FULLER MR CHRISTOPHER MARTIN MR WILLIAM MULLINS MR WILLIAM WHITE MR RICHARD WARREN JOHN HOWLAND MR STEVEN HOPKINS DIGERY PRIEST THOMAS WILLIAMS GILBERT WINSLOW EDMUND MARGESSON PETER BROWN RICHARD BRITTERIDGE GEORGE SOULE EDWARD TILLY JOHN TILLY FRANCIS COOKE THOMAS ROGERS THOMAS TINKER JOHN RIDGDALE EDWARD FULLER RICHARD CLARK RICHARD GARDINER MR JOHN ALLERTON THOMAS ENGLISH EDWARD DOTEN EDWARD LIESTER FROM THE MAYFLOWER COMPACT REPRINTED BY THE AVALON PROJECT MAYFLOWER COMPACT 1620 COPYRIGHT 1997 THE AVALON PROJECT SEPTEMBER 14 1999 HTTP://WWW.YALE.EDU/LAWWEB/AVALON/MAYFLOWR.HTM
