Why was the Mayflower Compact important?

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The Mayflower Compact was important because this document was actually the first record document that ever established self-government in the New World. It stayed active until in 1691 when the Plymouth Colony was put in as a part of the Massachusetts Bay colony.

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in mcculloch v. maryland (1819) the supreme court ruled that congress had implied powers under the necessary and proper clause of article i, section 8 of the constitution to create the second bank of the united states and that the state of maryland lacked the power to tax the bank.

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