USA HISTORY

SETTLING NORTH AMERICA 1497 1732

THE SOUTHERN COLONIES SETTLEMENT AND GROWTH

Question [CLICK ON ANY CHOICE TO KNOW THE RIGHT ANSWER]
A man named ____ wrote a constitution, a plan that outlined the jobs and powers of Carolina’s government.
A
John Smith
B
Lord Baltimore
C
John Locke
D
James Oglethorpe
Explanation: 

Detailed explanation-1: -history of the Carolinas government for the Carolinas, the Fundamental Constitutions, drafted in 1669 by Anthony Ashley Cooper (Lord Shaftesbury) with the help of the philosopher John Locke, was largely ineffective because of its restrictive and feudal nature.

Detailed explanation-2: -Both the Fundamental Constitutions and the development plan were drafted by the English liberal philosopher John Locke while working for the Lords Proprietors of Carolina, the eight noblemen who held the royal charter to settle the colony.

Detailed explanation-3: -Authorship. Because the Fundamental Constitutions were drafted during John Locke’s service to one of Province of Carolina proprietors, Anthony Ashley Cooper, it is widely alleged that Locke had a major role in the making of the Constitutions.

Detailed explanation-4: -Two Treatises of Government, major statement of the political philosophy of the English philosopher John Locke, published in 1689 but substantially composed some years before then.

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