When was Virginia Declaration of Rights created?

Answer 1

All men are born equally free and independent, and have certain inherit natural rights... among which are enjoyment of life and liberty, with the means of acquiring and possessing property, and pursuing and obtaining happiness and safety...

George Mason was the key architect and he wrote it in 1776. Jefferson used the Virginia Declaration of Rights as the basis for the Declaration of Independence, as well as the quote above
ACTUALLY, it was George Mason. NOT James Madison, like the previous person wrote.

Answer 2

Virginia Declaration of Rights Library. A call for American independence from Britain, the Virginia Declaration of Rights was drafted by George Mason in May 1776 and amended by Thomas Ludwell Lee and the Virginia Convention. Thomas Jefferson drew heavily from it when he drafted the Declaration of Independence one month later. This uniquely influential document was also used by James Madison in drawing up the Bill of Rights (1789) and by the Marquis de Lafayette in drafting the French Declaration of the Rights of Man (1789).

Answer 3

The Virginia Declaration of Rights is a document drafted in 1776 to proclaim the inherent rights of men, including the right to rebel against "inadequate" government. It was written by George Mason.

Answer 4

Because there was this guy who wanted rights for Virginia so he created this thing called the Virginia Declaration of rights

Answer 5

George Mason wrote the Virginia Bill of Rights in 1776

Answer 6

Virginia Declaration of Rights was created in 1776-05.

Answer 7

George Mason