To many, “George Mason” is just a college down the road in Fairfax, or the name of a street in Arlington. To a knowing few, he was one of three delegates to the Constitutional Convention in ...

Although James Madison is credited with drafting our Constitution’s Bill of Rights (the first 10 amendments), it is important to remember that he modeled them after George Mason’s Virginia ...

Like many of his contemporaries, his political differences kept his name off of the Constitution. George Mason helped draft the Virginia Declaration of Rights, a precursor to the U.S. Bill of Rights.

thought the Constitution was not sufficiently republican, and moved that there should be another convention to address amendments to be proposed by the states. George Mason, also of Virginia ...

The letter, dated April 6, 1768, also features a reply in George ... relationship between Mason and Washington—especially considering their later public split over the Constitution and Bill ...

In 1787, General George Washington presided over the Constitutional Convention with ... would be the "foetus of monarchy," while George Mason decried it as an invitation to tyranny.