The correct answer is C) civil body politic.
The Mayflower Compact used the following term to describe the colonists: civil body politic.
The Mayflower compact represented the first written document with rules for the American colonists that were traveling in the ship "Mayflower" from England to America. They intended to arrive at the coast of Virginia but strong winds and bad wheater made them reaching the coast of Cape Cod, Massachusetts. The Pilgrims and other English people signed the Mayflower Compact as a set of rules for self-governance.
