I'm sorry, but the Pilgrims are not my founders. My founders wrote the Constitution, and incorporated lessons learned from mistakes like the Mayflower Compact.
Some of your founders have some interesting history recorded over at the Library of Congress web site.
Next year Virginia will lead the nation in commemorating the 400th anniversaty of the first Engllish speakers to make a go of it in North America. 14 years before the Puritans.
I don't know much about the Mayflower Compact, but I do know that the Virginia Legislature is the oldest such body in the New World.