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400 years ago the Mayflower arrived in the New World. Before the passengers could set foot on shore, they needed to assemble a new set of laws to hold the colony together. Professor Julia Ernst from the University of North Dakota School of Law tells us the story of the Mayflower Compact, our first representative government.

Sources:

• History Channel article ‘Mayflower Compact’
• Wikipedia article ‘Mayflower Compact’