Not only is the Mayflower compact is a founding document. It like the Magna Carta, is just one of the key and core documents that formed the bedrock of documents of which then the US Constitution was built upon.
Pre-Colonial
To 1600
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The Magna Carta (1215) * Letter from Christopher Columbus to the King & Queen of Spain (1490's)
* The *Iroquois Constitution
17th Century
1601-1649
* The First, Second, & Third Virginia Charters
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The Mayflower Compact (1620) * The Charter of Massachusetts Bay (1629)
* The Fundamental Orders of Connecticut (1639)
1650-1700
* The Connecticut Colony Charter (1662)
* The First Thanksgiving Proclamation (1676)
18th Century
1701-1774
* The Albany Plan of 1754
* The Resolutions of the Stamp Act (Oct. 19, 1765)
1775-1800
* *Biographies of the *First Ladies & *Presidents of the United States
* Give Me Liberty or Give Me Death by Patrick Henry (March 23, 1775)
* The Declaration of Arms (July 6, 1775)
* Yankee Doodle
* The Virginia Declaration of Rights (June 12, 1776)
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The Declaration of Independence (July 4, 1776) * The Works of Benjamin Franklin
* The Articles of Confederation (Nov. 15, 1777)
* The Treaty of Paris (1783)
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The Federalist Papers * The Memorial and Remonstrance (June 20, 1785)
* The Annapolis Convention (Sept. 14, 1786)
* Letter of Transmittal of the U.S. Constitution (Sept. 17, 1787)
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The Constitution of the United States. (1787)
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