Ten years before the Puritans landed near Boston in 1630, the Pilgrims had landed on Cape Cod. Because they were far north of their sponsoring company's jurisdiction, they agreed to the "Mayflower Compact," a temporary set of principles about how they would govern themselves until a cha

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