Mayflower Compact Analysis

Read the following passage and answer the question that follows.

The Mayflower Compact

November 11, 1620

[This was November 21, old style calendar]

In the name of God, Amen. We, whose names are underwritten, the Loyal Subjects of our

dread Sovereigne Lord, King James, by the Grace of God, of Great Britaine, France, and Ireland,

King, Defender of the Faith, &c.

Having undertaken for the Glory of God, and Advancement of the Christian Faith, and the

Honour of our King and Country, a Voyage to plant the first colony in the Northerne Parts of

Virginia; doe, by these Presents, solemnly and mutually in the Presence of God and one of

another, covenant and combine ourselves together into a civill Body Politick, for our better

Ordering and Preservation, and Furtherance of the Ends aforesaid; And by Virtue hereof do

enact, constitute, and frame, such just and equall Laws, Ordinances, Acts, Constitutions, and

Offices, from time to time, as shall be thought most meete and convenient for the Generall

Good of the Colonie; unto which we promise all due Submission and Obedience.

In Witness whereof we have hereunto subscribed our names at Cape Cod the eleventh of

November, in the Raigne of our Sovereigne Lord, King James of England, France, and Ireland,

the eighteenth, and of Scotland, the fiftie-fourth, Anno. Domini, 1620.

Which of the following is NOT explicitly acknowledged in the Mayflower Compact?