"...these presents, solemnly and mutually in the pesence of God and one another, covenant and combine ourselves together into a civil body politick, for our better ordering and preservation...."
a. natural rights
b. classical republicanism
c. common law
What does this quotation from the Mayflower Compact best exemplify?
The 'civil body politick' whish they are forming is a state or a republic, and they are doing it 'solemnly and mutually ', in the classical method, so it is classical republicanism.
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