Just came across this quote from John Adams in A Defence of the Constitutions,
“A philosopher…when called upon to produce a plan of legislation, he
may astonish the world with a signal absurdity. Mr. Locke, in 1663, was
employed to trace out a plan of legislation for Carloina; and he gave
the whole authority, executive and legislative, to the eight
proprietors…and their heirs.” Adams adds, “[Locke] should have first
created a new species of beings to govern, before he instituted such a
government.”

I admit to some ignorance of our namesake, but how
much did this “signal absurdity” diminish his influence on the American
Constitution, if at all?