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45. Locke also just happens to be the author

or one of the authors, of the Fundamental Constitutions of Carolina, which was adopted, but never ratified, in 1669.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fundamental_Constitutions_of_Carolina

And that's really all there is to it. Locke's own authorship, as the wikipedia entry attests, is something in doubt. I happen to think the thing really was drafted by committee, with Locke and Shaftsbury acting mainly in an editorial capacity. The prose is not really much like Locke's other writings, though that may be because he was writing in a legal idiom.

Art Pope and the other folks behind the John Locke Foundation simply stuck Locke's name on their group based on this tenuous connection in order to give it some intellectual respectability. It's simply this local connection between North Carolina and Locke, a silly one, especially given that Locke never visited Carolina.

They would like to be a little Heritage Foundation for NC. Really, though, they are simply another venue for the endless repetition of GOP talking points.

Locke has nothing to do with it.