Compact to constitution: from consent of the governed to national sovereignty [plimoth patuxet museums requests a planning grant in support of compact to constitution: from consent of the governed…

Compact to constitution: from consent of the governed to national sovereignty [plimoth patuxet museums requests a planning grant in support of compact to constitution: from consent of the governed to national sovereignty, a permanent exhibition at the museum?s national register-listed mayflower II living history site. The exhibit will explore the origins and lasting national impacts of the mayflower compact, a document signed aboard mayflower in november 1620. The document, born of great necessity, laid not only the foundation for new england?s fledgling civic life, but also for our american system of representative government. IT echoes through the generations in the founding of new england town meetings, the promulgation of law codes, the formation of the united colonies of new england, the massachusetts constitution, and ultimately the US constitution. And its influence is manifest in how indigenous peoples of southern new england engaged with courts and legal systems to assert their rights and pursue sovereignty over time.]