Read the excerpt from the Mayflower Compact.
[We] combine ourselves together into a civil Body . . . for our better Ordering and Preservation . . . [to] frame such just and equal Laws . . . for the general Good of the Colony.
—Mayflower Compact
How did the people of the Plymouth Colony fail to achieve the ideals of the Mayflower Compact?
They did not come together to create a government.
They did not write laws that protected everyone in the colony.
They did not create an orderly community within the colony.
They did not form a civil body that could preserve the colony.
