Cassiques
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Cassiques and Landgraves (senior) were intended to be a fresh new system of titles of specifically American lesser nobility
, created for hereditary representatives in a proposed upper house of a bicameral Carolina assembly. They were proposed in the late 17th century and set out in the Fundamental Constitutions of Carolina
. The Fundamental Constitutions were never ratified by the assembly, and were largely abandoned by 1700.
The upper house, consisting of the Landgraves and Casiques..are..a middle state between Lords and Commons. (1702)
They are there by Patent, under the Great Seal of the Provinces, call'd Landgraves and Cassocks, in lieu of Earls and Lords. (1707)
Cacique, a native chief or ‘prince’ of the aborigines in the West Indies and adjacent parts of America. (1555)
The University of South Carolina, University Libraries http://www.sc.edu/library/spcoll/hist/lords/lords.html
Nobility
Nobility is a social class which possesses more acknowledged privileges or eminence than members of most other classes in a society, membership therein typically being hereditary. The privileges associated with nobility may constitute substantial advantages over or relative to non-nobles, or may be...
, created for hereditary representatives in a proposed upper house of a bicameral Carolina assembly. They were proposed in the late 17th century and set out in the Fundamental Constitutions of Carolina
Fundamental Constitutions of Carolina
The Fundamental Constitutions of Carolina were adopted in March 1669 by the eight Lords Proprietor of the Province of Carolina, which included most of the land between what is now Virginia and Florida. It replaced the Charter of Carolina and the Concessions and Agreements of the Lords Proprietors...
. The Fundamental Constitutions were never ratified by the assembly, and were largely abandoned by 1700.
The upper house, consisting of the Landgraves and Casiques..are..a middle state between Lords and Commons. (1702)
They are there by Patent, under the Great Seal of the Provinces, call'd Landgraves and Cassocks, in lieu of Earls and Lords. (1707)
Cacique, a native chief or ‘prince’ of the aborigines in the West Indies and adjacent parts of America. (1555)
External links
- John Wyche, Landgrave. The Lords Proprietors' Grant and Seal, 1699:
The University of South Carolina, University Libraries http://www.sc.edu/library/spcoll/hist/lords/lords.html
Sources
- The Avalon ProjectAvalon ProjectThe Avalon Project is a digital library of documents relating to law, history and diplomacy. The project is part of the Yale Law School Lillian Goldman Law Library....
of Yale Law SchoolYale Law SchoolYale Law School, or YLS, is the law school of Yale University in New Haven, Connecticut, United States. Established in 1824, it offers the J.D., LL.M., J.S.D. and M.S.L. degrees in law. It also hosts visiting scholars, visiting researchers and a number of legal research centers...
provides source documents for this period of the Carolina Colony history. - The Fundamental Constitutions of Carolina
- The Landgraves, Cassiques, and Baronies of Carolina
- Heirs of Hereditary Landgraves & Cassiques