The Pilgrim's Civil Code P2

The long-term result of Plymouth Colony was that it literally changed the world. It introduced and successfully demonstrated many concepts largely unpracticed at that time, but which thereafter became common - principles such as local self-government, a free market/free-enterprise economic system, racial equality, religious freedom, education for all children, protection for the rights of individual religious conscience, and much more.

As famous historian George Bancroft affirmed: In the cabin of the Mayflower, humanity recovered its rights and instituted government on the basis of “equal laws” for the “general good.”

Bancroft further pointed out that the Pilgrims also “founded a state on the basis of democratic liberty,” “formed the mold for the civil and religious character of its institutions,” and “scattered the seminal principles of republican freedom and national independence.” Americans today owe much to the Pilgrims.

Content sourced from The American Story, The Beginnings. By: David Barton and Tim Barton