Recalling the Mayflower Compact

On this day in 1620 (okay, November 11, Old Style) a raggedy band of Pilgrims sitting in their leaky ship created and signed a compact before debarking and establishing their colony.

While it is done in the face of the divine, it is essentially a compact among people.

It is generally considered the ancestor of our system of self-government (as well as what would be the spiritual governance of Congregational and later Unitarian churches…)

Here’s a computer reading the text, the only bare reading of the text I could find at Youtube.

It’s short. Everyone should have some experience of it.

And what better day than on the anniversary of its signing…