What does the following passage from The Mayflower Compact reveal about the
Pilgrims?
"... combine ourselves together into a civil body politic, for our better ordering and
preservation and furtherance of the ends aforesaid; and by virtue hereof to enact,
constitute, and frame such just and equal laws, ordinances, acts, constitutions, and
offices, from time to time, as shall be thought most meet and convenient for the
general good of the Colony, unto which we promise all due submission and
obedience."
The were about to descend into anarchy.
They wanted to revolt against King James.
They valued individualism over the community.
They valued community over individualism.
