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George Mason (December 11, 1725 [O.S. November 30, 1725] – October 7, 1792) was an American planter, politician, Founding Father, and delegate to the U.S. Constitutional Convention in Philadelphia in 1787, where he was one of three delegates who refused to sign the Constitution.
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Mar 26, 2024 · George Mason was an American patriot and statesman who insisted on the protection of individual liberties in the composition of both the Virginia and the U.S. Constitution (1776, 1787). He was ahead of his time in opposing slavery and in rejecting the constitutional compromise that perpetuated it.
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Apr 30, 2000 · George Mason was a Virginian who drafted the Virginia Declaration of Rights in 1776 and refused to sign the Constitution in 1787. He supported a bill of rights and a federal government that respected the rights of the people. Learn more about his life, his role in the founding of the United States, and his legacy.
Learn about the life and legacy of George Mason, a Founding Father, planter, and statesman who influenced the Revolution and the Constitution. He was a champion of republicanism, civil liberty, and the Bill of Rights, and a critic of slavery and the federal government.
Learn about the life and legacy of George Mason, the author of the Virginia Declaration of Rights and the Constitution of Virginia, who refused to sign the U.S. Constitution and lobbied for a bill of rights. Find out how his contributions to the Bill of Rights influenced the American Revolution and the world.
Dec 22, 2021 · His great-grandfather came to America from England about 1660. By the time of Mason’s birth on December 11, 1725, at Dogue’s Neck, the Mason family had acquired substantial landholdings in Maryland and northern Virginia. Mason’s father drowned crossing the Potomac River in March 1735, and Mason, his oldest son, inherited the bulk of his ...
Page: Resources Library. Category: Founders. George Mason’s ideas helped to shape the Founding documents of the United States, but few Americans remember him today. The words he used when writing the Virginia Declaration of Rights and the Virginia Constitution of 1776 inspired the nation’s Declaration of Independence and Bill of Rights.
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