The Mayflower Compact, signed on November 21 (November 11 in the
old calendar), 1620, causes a lot of confusion. Therefore,
before we go any further, let’s get some things clear: 1. The
so-called Pilgrims (or Separatists or whatever the fuck they
wanted to call themselves) were not interested in creating a
democracy. 2. They did not believe in religious freedom for
anyone but themselves. 3. No one asked the Wampanoag, the
Narragansett, the Patuxet or any of the other indigenous tribes
of the region to sign this thing (which they would have happily
done with a tomahawk to their pasty white skulls). The usual
line fed to us is that the Pilgrims created the Compact as the
first form of government in the Thirteen Colonies of North
America. There goes log of bullshit # 1–sorry, Jesus freaks, but
the tobacco-growing, native-wenching planters of Virginia had
you beat by one year, creating the House of Burgesses in 1619.
The other old saw follows that the Pilgrims intended to form a
democratic form of government amon