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He became a reformer of the Separation.
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Mayflower, and after a method quite in analogy with that in which, sixteen years before, they had constituted the church at Scrooby, entered into formal and solemn compact
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Contrat Social of Jean Jacques Rousseau, was familiar to the minds of those by whom the paper was drawn. Thoughtful men at the present day universally recognize the fallacy of this plausible hypothesis, which once had such wide currency and so serious an influence on the course of political history in America. But whether or not they were affected by the theory, the practical good sense of the men and their deference to the teachings of the Bible secured them from the vicious and absurd consequences deducible from it. Not all the names of the colonists were subscribed to the compact,--a clear indication of the freedom of individual judgment in that company,--but it was never for a moment held that the dissentients were any the less bound by it. When worthless John Billington, who had somehow got
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was sentenced for disrespect and disobedience to Captain Myles Standish