The Mayflower Compact to the Town Meeting: How Colonial New England Governed Itself. “Self-Government Before Theory”

Podcast: Consequential Actions Podcast · Jeff Kellick

Opublikowano: 2026-10-17

The Mayflower Compact to the Town Meeting: How Colonial New England Governed Itself In November 1620, the Mayflower dropped anchor far outside the only patent its passengers held. Before anyone went ashore, forty-one men promised to make just and equal laws and to obey them. The paper named no office and stated no right. The habit it began lasted a century and a half. New Englanders elected their officers, voted their own taxes, wrote down their laws, and ran their own churches long before one of their ministers explained the...