Question

What was the purpose if the mayflower compact

Answer 1

The Mayflower Compact was needed to institute a government with just and equal laws.

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Answer 2

The rest of the Mayflower Compact is very short. It simply bound the signers into a "Civil Body Politic" for the purpose of passing "just and equal Laws . . . for the general good of the Colony." But those few words expressed the idea of self-government for the first time in the New World.