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George Ticknor, Life, letters and journals of George Ticknor (ed. George Hillard) 2 0 Browse Search
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George Bancroft, History of the United States from the Discovery of the American Continent, Vol. 2, 17th edition., Chapter 13: (search)
cracy, See the Preamble in Charters, &c. p. 33; in Martin, i. App. LXXI. are avowed as the sole motives for forming the fundamental constitutions of Carolina. The rights of the resident emigrants were less considered. The proprietaries, as sovereigns, constituted a close corporation of eight—a number which was never to be diminished or increased. The dignity was hereditary: in default of heirs, the survivors elected a successor Thus was formed an upper house, a diet of Starosts, Gillies' Arist. II. 248. self-elected and immortal. For purposes of settlement, the almost boundless territory was to be divided into counties, each containing four hundred and eighty thousand acres. The creation of two orders of nobility, of one landgrave or earl, of two caciques or barons for each county, preceded the distribution of lands into five equal parts, of which one remained the inalienable property of the proprietaries, and another formed the inalienable and indivisible estates of t