Blog: The Father of the Bill of Rights on 'Fundamental Principles'
George Mason defined what it takes for us to preserve the blessing of liberty in his first draft of the Virginia Bill of Rights.
Mason was one member of a committee of twenty-seven Virginians appointed to draft the Virginia Declaration of Rights in 1776. Archibald Cary chaired the cumbersome committee. Mason took the lead in drafting the document.
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