How did the mayflower compact come to set a tone for the democratic america?

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How did the mayflower compact come to set a tone for the democratic america?
It was one of the earliest documents that had the idea of self-rule and a representative assembly for deciding issues of government. It was much like the House of Burgesses in Virginia in that it was a group selected from the population to make decisions for the good of the community. Many of the documents and governments of colonial America and into the formation of our country are based on many of the same ideas that the Mayflower Compact held.
Reply:it focused on a central gov't getting it's power from those being governed which is still true today.

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