Talk:Fundamental Constitutions of Carolina

I have never heard anyone express doubt that Locke played a role in drafting the Fundamental Constitutions. Is there a reference for this? In the meantime, I will change the wording of the article to state that Locke was ONE of the major authors (though probably not the sole author). This is the opinion of Robert Weir, in Colonial South Carolina: A History-- one of the standard authorities on early South Carolina. Drfryer 00:58, 9 August 2006 (UTC)


 * I'm going by memory here, but I seem to recall Richard Ashcraft saying in Revolutionary Politics and Locke's Two Treatises of Government that the "Constitutions" probably bare the same relation to Locke as the "Letter from a Person of Quality, to His Friend in the Country," with Shaftesbury's being the primary influence. Ashcraft was a major Locke scholar and meticulous historian, so I'm inclined to agree with him on this one.  It's possible that Locke did play a larger role -- his Two Tracts sound an awful lot like Hobbes, who wouldn't see the irony in asking the serfs to consent to their serfdom -- but I think that we have to treat his responsibility as an object of dispute. RJC Talk 17:40, 27 December 2006 (UTC)

Cazique reference and link
I think the link to the aristocratic title proposed in the constitution, namely 'Cassique' should lead to this article: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cassique, which explains the appropriation of the term and also includes references to the original term and the position held by indigenous peoples within their own tribes. Dejacque (talk) 14:46, 28 November 2017 (UTC)