LAD #1: Mayflower Compact & Fundamental Orders of Conneticut:

1) In the Mayflower Compact, it talks a bunch about the concepts of religion(they keep bringing up their God and how they are doing this with/for him), their colony's continuance(it's being done to preserve its future), the places the immigrants came from(France, England, and Ireland primarily), and the government that they are planning on setting up.

2) The Mayflower Compact reflects an attachment to both the "New" and "Old" worlds by(for the "Old" world) a consistent reference to King James from England and all the countries the people came from(France, England, Ireland) and(for the "New" world) by planning the new leadership for the continuance of the colony.

3) The Fundamental Orders of Connecticut differ from the Mayflower Compact in the fact that the Fundamental Orders of Connecticut are a list of laws for the people to follow while the Mayflower Compact is simply an agreement between eleven people to create laws and rules for the people to follow.

4) The colonists of Connecticut were prompted to create a written constitution because they believed that they needed rules created and followed that agreed with their church values(what God wanted them to do). Also, since some of the immigrants came from England and Ireland, things such as the Magna Carta, are similar to a written constitution, which may have prompted them to create one.

5) The Fundamental Orders reflect a fear of and safeguard against the usurping of power by one person or a chosen few by creating a limit on the amount of time a person may serve in most offices of government and the number of times they may serve and by limiting the power of each of the government officials.

If you would like to see these two documents(The Mayflower Compact and The Fundamental Orders of Connecticut)click the hyperlinks below:
Mayflower Compact
Fundamental Orders of Connecticut



Mayflower Compact(follow hyperlink for source)

Fundamental Orders of Connecticut creation(follow hyperlink for source)