LAD #1

Photo #1: Signing of the Mayflower Compact

Photo #2: Fundamental Orders of Connecticut

1) What concepts are included in the Mayflower Compact?
    
Answer: One concept is loyalty to their king, another is that their purpose for colonizing is too further Christianity. Another idea is that the colonists create a government to help them organize themselves and to create just laws.

2) How does the Mayflower Compact reflect and attachment to both the "Old" and "New" worlds?

Answer: The Mayflower Compact reflects both Old and New worlds. It does this by stating loyalty to the king(Old World),  while also stating the desire for the colonists to have self rule(New World).

3) How did the Fundamental Orders of Connecticut differ from the Mayflower Compact?

Answer: The Fundamental Orders call for the election of a law making body, where the Mayflower Compact calls for a general assembly of the townspeople.

4) What prompted the colonists of Connecticut to take this approach to government, i.e.: use of a written Constitution?

Answer: They were unsatisfied with the current one, so they wrote down a constitution in order to make sure that the government was doing what needed to be done.

5) In what significant way(s) does the Fundamental Orders reflect a fear of and safeguard against the usurping of power by one person or a chosen few?

Answer: Firstly it limits the time a governor can serve for. Secondly it states that a person who is currently in government cannot recommend anyone for a position in government. The Fundamental Orders reflect the fear by putting clear limitation so that no one person can steal all the power and become a dictator.


Photo #3: The 22nd amendment to the constitution limits the president to a maximum of 2 terms, like how the Fundamental Orders limited the governors term to 1 yrs.