LAD/Blog #1: "Mayflower Compact and Fundamental Orders of Connecticut"

1) Some of the main concepts of the Mayflower Compact are combine themselves together into a civil Body Politick in order to better their Ordering, Preservation and Furtherance of the Ends aforesaid, and to enact, constitute and frame such just and equal Laws, Ordinances, Acts, Constitutions, and Officers from time to time for the general Good of the Colony.
2) The Mayflower Compact reflects aspects of the Old World by subscribing their names at Cape-Cod in the Reign of their Sovereign Lord, King James. It reflects the aspects of the New World by wanting to enact, constitute, and frame, just and equal Laws, Ordinances, Acts, Constitutions, and Officers, from time to time, "as shall be thought most meet and convenient for the general Good of the Colony."
3) The Fundamental Orders differ from the Mayflower Compact in which there should be an orderly and decent Government established according to God, to order and "dispose of the affairs of the people at all seasons as occasion shall require." This document contains much more of a religious focus than the Mayflower Compact, whereas the Compact was more focused on developing a New World undeer the rule of their Lord, King James.
4) The reason that the colonists of Connecticut use a written constitution, is because the word of God requires it to maintain the peace and union of the people.
5) One significant way the Orders show a fear of the increasing power in one or a few people is the fact that one person can only be governor once every two years. Another example of this is that each town was to have power, by sending four freemen each to every general court meeting, so that all of the people have power and not just one governing person, or body of persons.