Since the Pilgrims were now a couple of hundred miles outside the Virginia Company’s territory, their patent was worthless. It became necessary to establish a new binding basis for government of their society. The result was the Mayflower Compact, infused with a remarkable confluence of religious and political theory… (essay by Joerg Knipprath)
— Read on theimaginativeconservative.org/2020/11/signing-mayflower-compact-joerg-knipprath.html