... solemnly and mutually in the presence of God and one of another, covenant and combine ourselves together into a civil body politic, for our better ordering
and preservation, and furtherance the ends aforesaid; and by virtue hereof to
enact, constitute, and frame such just and equal laws, ordinances, acts,
constitutions and offices, from time to time, as shall be thought most meet and
convenient for the general good of the Colony...
-Mayflower Compact, 1620
In what year would the excerpted document have been signed?
1620
1639
1776
1789