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.