Read and judge for yourself whether he is abiding by our foundations:
The full text of the Mayflower
Compact is as follows:
In the name of God, Amen. We, whose
names are underwritten, 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 advancements of the Christian faith, and the 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
another; covenant and combine ourselves 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 hereunto
subscribed our names at Cape Cod the 11th of November, 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, 1620.
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