Identify central issues - explain why the pilgrims government came about and why it's existence it was important

Because they landed outside of the Virginia jurisdiction where they had authority they established their own authority to aviod problems called the Mayflower Compact. It's existence is important because they agreed to pick people to govern over them which was used to form the U. S. Consitution later on in history.

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