Below is the text of The Mayflower Compact, the document that theocrats claim gives legitimacy to religious intrusion into our republic’s government. I for one do not see how a document that makes a point of twice swearing feudal fealty to a king on another continent can be construed as a basis for interpreting the intent of the founders of a republic here in America. Conservatives have been known to discount the more egalitarian elements of the Declaration of Independence as legally non-binding because they were never meant to be a foundation of law for the nation. The Mayflower Compact is a foundation of law, not of the USA, but of a religious colony (Cape Cod Virginia!) loyal to a foreign king. Now, if the people of Massachusetts want to codify the Mayflower Compact, more power to them, insofar as they do not violate the binding agreement they made to the USA, but I do not live in Massachusetts, nor did any of my ancestors, so please, theocratic fanatics, refrain from attempting to ensnare me into your anachronistic schemes. Oh, and I’ll eye your progress persuading the people of Massachusetts to give up the rights that the citizens of Lexington and Concord died for, and Elbridge Gerry, John Hancock, John Adams, Abigail Adams, Sam Adams and others lived for.

Ed Lacy
UnCommon Sense TV Media

The Mayflower Compact

“In the name of God, Amen. We, whose names are underwritten, the Loyal Subjects of our dread Sovereign Lord, King James, by the Grace of God, of England, France and Ireland, King, Defender of the Faith, e&.

Having undertaken for the Glory of God, and Advancement of the Christian Faith, and the Honour of our King and Country, a voyage to plant the first colony in the northern parts of Virginia; do by these presents, solemnly and mutually in the Presence of God and one of another, covenant and combine ourselves together into a civil Body Politick, 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.

In Witness whereof we have hereunto subscribed our names at Cape Cod the eleventh of November, in the Reign of our Sovereign Lord, King James of England, France and Ireland, the eighteenth, and of Scotland the fifty-fourth. Anno Domini, 1620.”