...friends is unknown. The core of the Mayflower covenant reads: " [We] covenant to combine our selves together into a civil body politic; for our better...the Colony: unto which we promise all due submission and obedience." Look at this hard and you can see the ghostly outline of democracy, the submission...

...our better ordering and preservation, and furtherance of the ends aforesaid: and by virtue hereof do enact, constitute, and frame such just and equal laws,...the Colony: unto which we promise all due submission and obedience. The First Charter of Massachusetts (1629). Other colonies also established havens of...

...constitute, and frame, such just and equal Laws, Ordinances, Acts, Constitutions, and Officers, from time ct their injustice. First, they are subversive of...natural liberty, because an authority is assumed over hereunto subscribed our names at Cape-Cod the eleventh of November, in the Reign of our Sovereign Lord...

...the ends aforesaid; and by virtuue hereof to enact, constitute and frame such just and equal Lawes, Ordinances, Acts, Constitutions and Offices, from...the Colony, unto which we promise all due submission and obedience. What Arendt finds remarkable is that the Puritans' interest in covenant as they encountered...

...to die together enacts the words of the Mayflower Compact: to follow the laws of the godly leaders "as shall be thought most meet and convenient for...the Colony, unto which we promise all due submission and obedience" (Bradford 76). Like the family of silent sheep who are resigned "to die together lovingly"...

...constitutions, and offices, from time to time, as shall be thought most meet and convenient for the general use of the Colony, unto which we promise all due submission and obedience. In witness whereof we have here underscribed our names at Cape Cod, llth of November, in the year of the reign of our sovereign...