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A 6 page paper
which examines “The Mayflower Compact” and the Declaration of Independence as they
illustrate how some ideas were powerfully imbedded in the nation despite the changes in
times. Bibliography lists 4 sources.
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with freedom and perhaps more importantly in the beginning, freedom of religion. The founding individuals, the Puritans, wanted a place where they could follow their own lives according to their
particular beliefs without being controlled by the British rule. As the years went by and the revolution took place many of these ideals still remained the same, though the future
and the needs of the new nation also became more complex. The following paper examines how the ideals of the Puritans and those of the Revolutionary writers were very similar
as the founding ideals continued into the newly expanding nation. The paper does this by first examining the Mayflower Compact and then discussing the Declaration of Independence. Mayflower
Compact The Mayflower Compact was signed in the cabin of the Mayflower. As one author notes, "In 1620 the Pilgrims, persecuted for consciences sake, braved the tempests of the vast
and furious ocean and the terrors lurking in the American wilderness to plant their State of Freedom. Even before landing they set up their government by a written Compact; the
first charter of a government of the people, by the people and for the people known to history" (Federal Government: The Mayflower Compact). The Puritans wrote the following:
"We, whose names are underwritten, the Loyal Subjects of our dread Sovereign Lord, King James, by the Grace of God, of England, France and Ireland, King, Defender of the Faith,
e&. 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 of another, covenant and combine ourselves together into a civil Body
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