What is the main difference between the house of burgesses and the mayflower compact?

The first legislature anywhere in the English colonies in America was in Virginia. This was the House of Burgesses, and it first met on July 30, 1619, at a church in Jamestown. Its first order of business was to set a minumum price for the sale of tobacco. However, by no means was this body a truly representative government. Nonetheless, its presence was crucial to the founding of our nation. The House of Burgesses, which met at first only once a year, could make laws, which could be vetoed by the governor or the directors of the Virginia Company. This continued to be the standard until 1624, when Virginia became a royal colony. At this time, England took much more control of things in Virginia, restricting the powers of the House of Burgesses. This government also gave colonists a sense of pride - The fact that the burgesses could make their own laws was very much on the mind of many people in the American colonies, especially when Great Britain continued to pass harsh laws that the colonists viewed as "taxation without representation."





The Mayflower Compact was a declaration of democracy, one of the first in the colonies.





The Peirce Patent of 1621 superseded the Mayflower Compact. John Peirce, one of the merchant adventurers, secured it from the Council for New England in London. This patent gave the Mayflower colonists permission settle in New England. The patent is the oldest extant state document in New England.





This is the Actual Text of the Mayflower Compact





In the name of God, Amen. We whose names are under-written, 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, etc.


Having undertaken, for the glory of God, and advancement of the Christian faith, and honor 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 our selves together into a civil body politic, for our better ordering and preservation and furtherance of the ends aforesaid; and by virtue hereof to enact, constitute, and frame such just and equal laws, ordinances, acts, constitutions and offices, 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 hereunder subscribed our names at Cape Cod, the eleventh of November [New Style, November 21], in the year of the reign of our sovereign lord, King James, of England, France, and Ireland, the eighteenth, and of Scotland the fifty-fourth. Anno Dom. 1620.





So to answer your question, The Mayflower Compact ws one of the first to have a declaration of democracy to permanent settle in New England and the House of Burgess was the first to legislate and make laws.

What is the main difference between the house of burgesses and the mayflower compact?
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Reply:the main difference? one was a piece of paper, one was a legislature. One was aboard the Mayflower in Cape cod, the other was in Virginia...