LAD #1: Mayflower Compact & Fund. Orders of CT

Mayflower Compact

 &

  Fundamental Orders of CT

1) What concepts are included in the Mayflower Compact?

The 41 men who signed the Mayflower Compact made an agreement that they would all combine together as one to better preserve what they had and keep order before they reached Plymouth Rock and the New World. They would live among their own laws in a civil society throughout this journey in order to remain loyal to their king and god as well.

2) How does the Mayflower Compact reflect an attachment to both the "Old" and "New" worlds?

The Mayflower Compact reflects attachment to the Old world as it states that the men will remain loyal to their own practices and leaders of Europe.  Therefore carrying on traditions from their mother country in the Old World when entering the New World. It also states an attachment to the New World in saying that, here, they will be able to develop a new government to benefit the new colony.

3) How did the Fundamental Orders of Connecticut differ from the Mayflower Compact?

There is such a difference between the Mayflower Compact and the Fundamental Orders of CT due to the fact that the Mayflower Compact is an agreement of things that these men are given the ability to change written in the fashion of a document. Whereas the Fundamental Orders of CT are written as an actual set of rules set up constitutionally verifying what you can and cannot do.

4) What prompted the colonists of Connecticut to take this approach to government, i.e.: use of a written Constitution?

The colonists believed that this approach to government was necessary at the time so that a set of rules would be known to everyone and therefore would help lessen the possibility of one trying to take power into their own hands that might cause problems within the state. Each colonist had their right to their own liberty.

5) In what significant way(s) does the Fundamental Orders reflect a fear of and safeguard against the usurping of power by one person or a chosen few?

The orders reflect this fear of and safeguard against the uprising of power by one person or a chosen few because the rules state certain limits that one can rule. For example, "no person be chosen Governor above once in two years".