Fundamental Constitutions

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Fundamental Constitutions

colonial Carolinas [1669–1693]

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American colonies
The Carolinas and Georgia
The “Fundamental Constitutions” which John Locke helped Shaftesbury draw up for the Carolinas, providing for a hereditary landed nobility bearing bizarre titles, was totally unsuited to the American scene and never went into real effect. The proprietors gave each colony instead a simple workable form of…
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The “Fundamental Constitutions” which John Locke helped Shaftesbury draw up for the Carolinas, providing for a hereditary landed nobility bearing bizarre titles, was totally unsuited to the American scene and never went into real effect. The proprietors gave each colony instead a simple workable form of…
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