The power to levy troops, to erect fortifications, to make war by sea and land on their enemies, and, in cases of necessity, to exercise martial law was granted them.

Every favor was extended to the proprietaries, nothing being neglected but the interests of the English sovereign and rights of the colonists.

Imagination encouraged every extravagant hope, and Ashley Cooper, Earl of Shaftesbury, the most active and the most able of the corporators, was deputed by them to frame for the dawning states a perfect constitution, worthy to endure throughout all ages.
The constitutions for Carolinia merit attention as the only continued attempt within the United States to connect political power with hereditary wealth.

America was singularly rich in every form of representative government.

Its political life was so varied that, in modern constitutions, hardly a method of constituting an upper or popular house has thus far been suggested, of which the character and operation had not already been tested in the experience of our fathers.
In Carolinia the disputes of a thousand years were crowded into a generation.
"Europe suffered from absolute but inoperative laws.