Directions: Analyze the document and answer the question that follow.
"[I]n the Presence of God and one another, [we]...combine ourselves together into a civil Body Politick, for our better ordering and Preservation, and...to enact, constitute, and frame such just and equal Laws, Ordinances, Acts, Constitutions, and Offices, from time to time, as shall be though most meet [proper] and convenient for the general Good of the Colony; unto which we promise all due Submissions and Obedience."
--The Mayflower Compact 1620
What is the main purpose of this agreement?
Question 8 options:
to choose a leader
to create a court system
to set down economic rules
to maintain unity and order