The Mayflower Compact And The Star Spangled Banner

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Comparative Essay Throughout the years there has been many ways to reassure and keep others happy. The Mayflower Compact is one of the United States foundational documents of great historical significance, it contains literary elements with other important U.S. foundational documents in later centuries. The Preamble to the Constitution is one of the country’s foundational documents, igniting a signal of freedom both to the nation and the world. Last, The Star Spangled Banner is a historical poem that is used for the United States. The themes that the Preamble to the Constitution has in common with the Mayflower Compact and The Star Spangled Banner is unity, freedom, and peace. Unity is the state of being united or joined as a whole. “Combine ourselves together into a civil body, politick, for our better ordering and preservation” (Mayflower Compact), “Form a more perfect union, establish justice” (Preamble to the Constitution), and “Praise the power that hath made and preserv’d us a nation!” (Star Spangled Banner). Unity is compared in all three quotes to both the historical documents and the historical poem has something to do with the nation. The purpose to unity is having an agreement that …show more content…

“By virtue hereof to enact, constitute, and frame such just and equal law, ordinances, acts, constitutions and offices” (Mayflower Compact), “Do ordain and establish this Constitution for the United States of America” (Preamble to the Constitution), and “O thus be it ever when freemen shall stand Between their lov’d home and the war’s desolation!” (Star Spangled Banner). Freedom is compared in all three quotes to both the historical documents and the historical poem due to each one meaning freedom that in America we are free and have a happy union. Both the historical documents and the historical poem have in common is unity and freedom, but they also have in common is

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