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Consider the following two quotes from the Mayflower Compact…

"do enact, constitute, and frame, such just and equal laws,..."

"for the general Good of the Colony".

Explain in your own words…

1. What is the purpose of, and reasoning for “just and equal laws”?

2. What is the value of the clause "general good"?

3. Why were these points important to the Mayflower settlers in 1620?

4. Why would these points be important to the Founding Fathers in 1776?



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