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potential for disease and death. we find it in the deeply held religious beliefs rejecting church hierarchy and rules as contrary to scripture in favor of a world where you need not go through another to come before god and warship and where they could raise their children in their own faith instead of losing them. we find it in their sheer audacity, a group of a few more than 100, less than half of them grown men so committed to an idea and a belief in the rightness of their purpose they would flout any pressure, any government, any restriction, even from the high monarch of england, james the first. the mayflower compact written anticipation of conflict and disunity made a nod to king james in its opening and made clear the group would bow only to such a government and governors as we should by common consent agreed to make and choose. it is a simple document to read today, simple but powerful. it represents an assumption of equality under the law that

Old worldChurch hierarchyWritten anticipation of conflictPeople empoweredJames the first