What did the Mayflower Compact state?

....in understandable terms. Don't give me the actual words of it.

What did the Mayflower Compact state?
There were originally two groups sailing from England on two ships, the Mayflower and the Speedwell. When the Speedwell started taking on water, they had to turn back and passengers from both ships had to form a smaller group which came on the Mayflower. Many believe that the Speedwell's crew over-rigged and sabotaged it so that they wouldn't have to make the trip...but that's another story.





These two new groups are generally known as the Saints and Strangers and were traveling to America for different reasons. When they got to Plymouth they realized that all of the men must agree to certain rules and conditions in order to form a cohesive group. There were only 102 passengers on the Mayflower, many women and children. In fact, during the first winter, half of them died.





To answer your question, though, it was a document agreeing to accept a the decisions of the majority ("civil body politic") and, in many ways, was the predecessor to the Consitution. Rather than being governed by a monarch, citizens were going to govern themselves.





P.S. The group of Mayflower passengers that we now refer to as the Pilgrims should not be confused with Puritans. They came over 10 years later and had very little in common with the Pilgrims.
Reply:The may flower compact was basically a document that the pilgrims the men signed on the may flower. Saying how They will govern them selves in the new world it was pretty much to keep order. That's the simplest way i can explain without getting in too much complexity.

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