Pilgrims mayflower7/11/2023 Besides, the Mayflower compact started with a declaration of loyalty to King James. The Society of Mayflower Descendants presented this plaque to the State of Ohio on May 27, 1933. Nor did the Pilgrims' belief in what Robert Hughes once called "the hierarchy of the virtuous" square with the more secular poetry of the Declaration of Independence that all men are created equal, and endowed by their creator with certain unalienable rights. The group of the Pilgrims that were leaving for religious freedom was known as Separatists.This group is often referred to as 'The Saints. Yet scholars at the Constitutional Center in Philadelphia suggest it had largely been forgotten by the time the Founding Fathers gathered at Independence Hall. The Mayflower first landed at the tip of Cape Cod, in what is now Provincetown. ![]() The first experiment in New World self-government, some scholars even see it as a kind of American Magna Carta, a template for the Declaration of Independence and the US Constitution. The Mayflower didnt land in Plymouth first. ![]() Signed by the Pilgrims and the so-called Strangers, the craftsmen, merchants and indentured servants brought with them to establish a successful colony, it agreed to pass "just and equal laws for the good of the Colony". ![]() The Mayflower compact is a significant historical document, the "wave-rocked cradle of our liberties", as one historian evocatively put it.
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