The provisions of the mayflower compact would influence later documents like the articles of confederation. which of the following is not a reason the colonists created and signed the mayflower compact

To cut all ties with the British king

Explanation:

The Mayflower Pact is an agreement written by consensus of the New Settlers who arrived in New Plymouth in November 1620. They had crossed the ocean on the Mayflower ship which had anchored in what is currently Provincetown Harbor near Cape Cod, Massachusetts. The Mayflower Pact was drafted with fair and egalitarian laws for the general good of colonization and according to the will of the majority. Mayflower passengers knew that previous New World settlers had failed due to the lack of a government system. They discussed their content and then wrote the pact for the sake of their own survival.

All 41 male adults who came in the Mayflower signed the Pact. Being the earliest written laws for the new land, the Covenant was the authority over colonization and was followed as such until 1961. It determined that the colonists (mostly persecuted separatists) were free from English law. It was created to establish a government among the settlers and was written by those who would be ruled.

It is important to remember that the pact of mayflower was a letter and was under the control of the British crown.

the national congress's powers over the states were specific and definite: it had the sole power to negotiate treaties, declare war, and make peace. all powers not granted to congress were reserved for state governments. congress had no power to levy taxes, for example.