LAD #1: Mayflower Compact & Fundamental Orders of Connecticut

The Mayflower Compact
http://www.ocmayflower.org/images/compact.jpg

LAD #1:

1. Concepts that are included in the Mayflower Compact is the concept of forming a government to maintain order and to do anything that will better the colony.

2. The Mayflower Compact reflects to the "new" by forming its own government separate from the King and adding democratic ideas into it. It reflects to the "old" world by still pledging it's loyalty to the King.

3. The Fundamental Orders of Connecticut differed from the Mayflower Compact because when the settlers wrote the Mayflower Compact it was meant to be temporary so the could form some order in the colony and then be able to make a permanent government later on. But the Fundamental Order of Connecticut was made to provide a permanent and firm government that gave power to the people.

The signing of the Fundamental
Orders of Connecticut
http://www.law.uconn.edu/files/u2511/fundamental.jpg

4. The colonist developed the Fundamental Orders of Connecticut because they needed a stronger government. By forming the document it brought together a bunch of little towns to form a strong government. They were able to form laws that all of the towns had to follow and choose officials to lead the towns. By forming together and creating laws they were able to form a stable and permanent government.

5. The Fundamental Orders reflects a fear of one person or a chosen few getting to much power by allowing the people to vote for the officials in elections and made impossible for one person or a chosen few to gain total control because it limited        the power of the government.