The document that demonstrated the settlers of Plymouth were ready to govern themselves is the Mayflower Compact. Signed in 1620 by the Pilgrims aboard the Mayflower, this agreement established a framework for self-governance and mutual cooperation among the settlers. It marked a significant step toward democratic governance in the New World, as the signers agreed to create and abide by their own laws for the good of the colony.
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magna carta .
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the Mayflower Compact
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The Mayflower Compact.
The document written by the separatists was called the Mayflower Compact. It was written and signed while they were still aboard the Mayflower and was composed to be the first document that would govern the Plymouth Colony.
They wanted to govern themselves.
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Montesquieu did believe people could govern themselves
Montesquieu did believe people could govern themselves
The Constitution was a revolutionary document because it established the idea of popular sovereignty, which is the idea that the people govern themselves. For example the Constitution begins by saying "We the people..."
English settlers had to self govern greatly because most of the people who inhabited America when they arrived had their separate system of culture as their law. English settlers brought common law to America and they adopted that as their law.
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