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George Mason, Forgotten Founder (Paperback)
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George Mason, Forgotten Founder (Paperback)
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George Mason (1725-92) is often omitted from the small circle of
founding fathers celebrated today, but in his service to America he
was, in the words of Thomas Jefferson, ""of the first order of
greatness."" Jeff Broadwater provides a comprehensive account of
Mason's life at the center of the momentous events of
eighteenth-century America. Mason played a key role in the Stamp
Act Crisis, the American Revolution, and the drafting of Virginia's
first state constitution. He is perhaps best known as author of the
Virginia Declaration of Rights, a document often hailed as the
model for the Bill of Rights. As a Virginia delegate to the
Constitutional Convention in Philadelphia, Mason influenced the
emerging Constitution on point after point. Yet when he was
rebuffed in his efforts to add a bill of rights and concluded the
document did too little to protect the interests of the South, he
refused to sign the final draft. Broadwater argues that Mason's
recalcitrance was not the act of an isolated dissenter; rather, it
emerged from the ideology of the American Revolution. Mason's
concerns about the abuse of political power, Broadwater shows, went
to the essence of the American experience.
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