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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. His writings, including substantial portions of the Fairfax ...
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In the Virginia Constitution, Mason called the British style of government unsatisfactory and described a new governmental structure. Mason’s idea was to have a system with multiple branches and levels. He also explained the powers of these different parts of government. The Virginia Constitution was an important model for many other state ...
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Mar 26, 2024 · Constitutional Convention. George Mason (born 1725, Fairfax county, Va. [U.S.]—died Oct. 7, 1792, Fairfax county, Va., U.S.) 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 ...
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Jan 1, 2009 · George Mason IV (1725–1792), a Virginia planter, statesman and one of the founders of the United States, is best known for his proposal of a bill of rights at the Constitutional Convention of 1787. As an Anti-Federalist, he believed that a strong national government without a bill of rights would undermine individual freedom.
Apr 30, 2000 · One of them was the Virginian George Mason. Because the Constitution created a federal government he felt might be too powerful, and because it did not end the slave trade and did not contain a ...
Dec 22, 2021 · George Mason was a wealthy planter and an influential lawmaker who served as a member of the Fairfax County Court (1747–1752; 1764–1789), the Truro Parish vestry (1749–1785), the House of Burgesses (1758–1761), and the House of Delegates (1776–1780). In 1769, he helped organize a nonimportation movement to protest British imperial ...
Mason attended the 1787 Constitutional Convention in Philadelphia participating in several debates concerning the various powers entrusted to the new government. However, he ultimately refused to sign the finished document, protesting—amongst other shortcomings—that the new blueprint lacked a bill of rights.
