It was this voyage, of course, that gave us one of the foundational documents in our history, the Mayflower Compact ... off of Cape Cod on November 9, 1620, well north of its intended destination ...

In November 1620, the Mayflower completed its voyage ... For much of American history, the Mayflower Compact—as it came to be called—has been considered a foundational document.

The origin of the idea of American exceptionalism can be traced to the Mayflower Compact of 1620 in which the settlers of Plymouth, Mass., decided how they would govern themselves by writing on ...

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Driven far off course by gales and rough seas as they crossed the Atlantic in the fall of 1620, the Mayflower ... That something turned out to be the Mayflower Compact, the foundation stone ...

A group of scholars meets this week to discuss the impact of the Mayflower Compact—signed 400 years ago last week, on Nov. 11, 1620—on the American concept of the rule of law.

On Nov. 9, 1620, after two brutal months of travel ... they needed laws for their community in the New World. The Mayflower Compact was their solution—a document based on the idea that ...

On December 18, 1620 ... the Atlantic, the Mayflower initially anchored on November 11 in what became Provincetown Harbor, Cape Cod. At this point, it was decided a Compact should be agreed ...

He talked about the creation, and significance of, the Mayflower Compact. Plimoth Patuxet Deputy Executive Director Richard Pickering explained how the Pilgrims landed in New England. He talked ...