George Mason drafted the Virginia state constitution and the Virginia Declaration of Rights in 1776, which influenced Thomas Jefferson and was used as a model by other states. A member of the Virginia House of Delegates (1776 - 88), he attended the Constitutional Convention but did not sign the Constitution of the United States, which he believed granted large and indefinite powers to the central government.
As passed, the Virginia Declaration was largely the work of George Mason; the committee and the Convention made some verbal changes and added Sections 10 and 14. This declaration served as a model for bills of rights in several other state constitutions and was a source of the French Declaration of the Rights of Man and of the Citizen, though its degree of influence upon the latter document is a highly controversial question.
they are both important documents
On June 12th, 1776, the Virginia Declaration of Rights was written by George Mason.
The English Bill of Rights and the Virginia Declaration of Rights
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The Virginia Declaration of Rights
Virginia's Declaration of Rights was the example used to draft the United States first Bill of Rights. George Mason drafted this early Virginia document.
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The Virginia Declaration of Rights
George Mason drafted the Virginia state constitution and the Virginia Declaration of Rights in 1776, which influenced Thomas Jefferson and was used as a model by other states. A member of the Virginia House of Delegates (1776 - 88), he attended the Constitutional Convention but did not sign the Constitution of the United States, which he believed granted large and indefinite powers to the central government.
James Madison is the author of the Virginia Declaration of Rights
The Virginia Declaration of Rights
As passed, the Virginia Declaration was largely the work of George Mason; the committee and the Convention made some verbal changes and added Sections 10 and 14. This declaration served as a model for bills of rights in several other state constitutions and was a source of the French Declaration of the Rights of Man and of the Citizen, though its degree of influence upon the latter document is a highly controversial question.
The Virginia Declaration of rights written by George Mason
they are both important documents
On June 12th, 1776, the Virginia Declaration of Rights was written by George Mason.