The Mayflower Compact was an agreement between the passengers of the Mayflower who were colonists entering a new world. The agreement was based on self governance for the overall happiness of the colony. By coming together as citizens and giving up certain rights to achieve the liberty and freedom of the majority, the Mayflower Compact was one of the first contracts that were influenced by the social contract theory. Democratic values were made to ensure that new colonists would live a successful life with independence. “In the presence of God, and one of another, covenant and combine our selves together into a civil body politic, for our better ordering and preservation” (Bradford, 2). This was just the first sentence of the compact, as it
