Page 35 - Beers With Our Founding Fathers

A Patriot’s view of the history and direction of our Country

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 11th of November, in the year of the reign of our
Sovereign Lord King James, of England, France, and Ireland, the

eighteenth, and of Scotland the fifty-fourth, 1620.”
As can be seen, the first governed colony of North America was

founded on principles of Christianity, and religious freedom an early
conceptual form of a Democratic representative republic. A

majority would make decisions and laws. At the time, women
would not have been permitted in leadership roles, and neither

were indentured servants. These principles of Christianity, religious
freedom and ruling by a majority would continue into the quest for

equality under the crown, and eventually independence when that
was not possible.

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