My personal belief is that the Mayflower Compact was originally used as the foundation for democracy in the United States, but that our democracy has evolved since. We do have to take in to consideration that our country has changed drastically since 1620. Only wealthy, white, men were allowed to vote and form the very democracy we have today. Democracy itself is defined as, "A system of government by the whole population or all the eligible members of the state, typically through elected representatives." Nowadays, this holds true for the most part. There is variety in race, gender and other trivial matters in our government. While not as much as there should be, there is far more of the population being involved in democracy in the modern
