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“Plymouth Colony's Contribution to the Bill of Rights”
Historian Pauline Meier characterized our Nation’s founding documents as American Scripture. Certainly, the Mayflower Compact takes chronological priority in the sacred texts of America’s civil religion. In the absence of a royal charter and faced with mounting shipboard dissension because the Mayflower landed north of the colony’s legal destination in Northern Virginia, key passengers initiated the organization of a government and legal structure by formulating a self-declared “combination” in which the necessity of forming a “civil body politic” was set forth.
Here is the Pilgrim Pledge that all our "cousins" read in unison at the start of each of our luncheon meetings:
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