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Compact to Constitution
From Compact to Constitution is a set of six video presentations with accompanying study material to aid educators.
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Members of the Texas Society generously donated funds over the years for educational purposes and the Society skillfully stewarded those funds to a point where a significant project could be considered. The Society however, lacked the technical resources and skills to attempt a project worthy of the objective. Plimoth-Patuxet Museums had the research and technical skills for such a project yet lacked the financial resources to take on large-scale projects beyond the operation of the museum.
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So a collaboration was formed!
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The result of this collaboration is the program available on this website, free of charge to interested parties but specifically to educators and educational organizations. The scripts have been created to accomplish all tasks in the curricula detailed in the Texas Essential Knowledge and Skills for the 8th and 2nd grade levels where the pertinent topics are mandated. The program will be a useful tool for all educators world-wide however and a full-length version is also available.
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From Compact to Constitution follows the progression of the humble Mayflower Compact from the cold, crowded decks of the Mayflower in 1620. Written of necessity, the document created the first agreement of self-rule in America and laid the foundation for the United States Constitution that followed that codifies and ensures the freedoms and responsibilities we enjoy today. The program is particularly timely as we, as a nation celebrate the 250th anniversary of our birth as a free nation of self-rule.
The Mayflower Compact, a document of less than 100 words was more than just an expedient for the moment on that cold November day. The Compact was followed dutifully and read aloud at the beginning of any Plymouth Colony official proceeding or gathering for many years. The program explains the concepts of self-rule and presents newer documents that followed, through the Declaration of Independence and The Constitution yet the foundational concepts in the Mayflower Compact were retained and evident.
The videos were filmed at Plimoth-Patuxet Museums and in and around the Plymouth area using skilled re-enactors from the staff of the Plimoth-Patuxet Museums. With production techniques including state of the art AI technology, viewers will be transported to the 17th century to see and hear how our nation and our freedoms began.