 Some authors have suggested that Locke may have had an additional concern in mind in writing the chapter on property. Tully (1993) and Barbara Arneil (1996) point out that Locke was interested in and involved in the affairs of the American colonies and that Locke’s theory of labor led to the convenient conclusion that the labor of Native Americans generated property rights only over the animals they caught, not the land on which they hunted which Locke regarded as vacant and available for the taking. David Armitage (2004) even argues that there is evidence that Locke was actively involved in revising the  Fundamental Constitutions of Carolina  at the same time he was drafting the chapter on property for the Second Treatise. Mark Goldie (1983), however, cautions that we should not miss the fact that political events in England were still Locke’s primary focus in writing the the Second Treatise. 