Excerpt from Rombert, Vol. 1 of 2: A Tale of Carolina The constitution framed by him, taken as a whole, exhibits the hand of a philosopher, but it also exhibits much inconsistency, when viewed in connection with his other works. For instance, when it is considered that he wrote a treatise on government so liberal in its tendency as to call forth the spleen of numbers who maintained the divine right of rulers, and the duty of passive obedience in the subject, it appears singular that he should have endeavoured, by his constitution for Carolina, to create a nobility, and to give to every freeman absolute authority over his negro slaves. The very circumstance of a man of such eminent talents and profound views as John Locke having been the author of this incongruous constitution, places in a strong light the utter inability of legis lating at three thousand miles distance for a peo ple in a new country, with whose wants it is impos sible that the lawgiver should be fully acquainted. The truth of this is proved by the well-known fact, that the colonists never gave their consent to these laws, but contented themselves with adhering to such of them merely, as chanced to turn out applicable to their situation while they quietly allowed the rest to pass into oblivion, where they remained until some over-wise governor attempted to put them in force, in order to serve his own purposes. Then, with a spirit which has ever marked the Carolinians, they resisted them at once. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

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