On 7 March 1638, just as Anne Hutchinson's church trial was getting underway, a group of men gathered at the home of William Coddington and drafted a compact for a new government.
A.J. Duffy, president of United Teachers Los Angeles, participated in drafting the compact and sent a letter of support, but did not sign because the union's historically recalcitrant house of representatives balked.
To quell the conflict and preserve unity, Pilgrim leaders (among them William Bradford and William Brewster) drafted the Mayflower Compact before going ashore.
But the idea of a Tea Party-drafted compact severely limits the movement's survival, because candidates would be forced to sign on to a document that not only doesn't' represent all Americans, but puts them into a prohibitive, ideological cage.
When the Colorado River Compact was drafted in the 1920s, it was based on barely 30 years of streamflow records that suggested an average annual flow of past Lee's Ferry.
This spring's truck tour was part of a related campaign called Worn Wear, which is an attempt to draft a new compact between Patagonia and its customers.
Mark Shurtleff, the Utah attorney general and a Mormon who helped draft the Utah Compact, endorsed Mr. Romney's candidacy and recently attended an event with him but did not bring up immigration.
After the nation's most stringent immigration law -- controversial Arizona bill SB-1070 -- passed last year, Shurtleff joined an unlikely coalition of law enforcement, community members, and faith leaders to draft the Utah Compact, a declaration of five principles that guide discussion over immigration in the state.
He wrote some 1965 episodes of the magazine-office serial Compact, then was drafted in with Max Marquis (1966-67) to shake up the football saga United! less than a year after its launch.
Though Gessen later describes the ways in which Harbach improved the novel in subsequent drafts ("more compact, less sentimental, funnier"), I think it's fair to say that a lightness of tone and style (and to a lesser extent of subject matter) has persisted into the published version of the book.
The Utah Compact, a bipartisan declaration for humane immigration reform, drafted in 2010 was praised by the Church, which released an official statement saying, "The Church regards the declaration of the Utah Compact as a responsible approach to the urgent challenge of immigration reform.
