Which one of the following statements is most accurate regarding the mayflower compact?

D. 
Their tiny wooden ship, called the 
Mayflower, arrived at present-day Massachusetts in the fall of 
1620. There they founded Plymouth Colony. The Pilgrims, as 
they called themselves, had no charter. Therefore, before they 
disembarked from their ship, they gathered to draw up an 
agreement. The Mayflower Compact, as the agreement 
was called, allowed the Pilgrims to establish laws based on a 
majority vote. It also permitted towns and villages to govern 
themselves. However, all these governments had to be based 
on Puritan religious ideas.