George Mason : the founding father who gave us the Bill of Rights / William G. Hyland Jr.

"George Mason was a short, bookish man who was a friend and neighbor of athletic, broad-shouldered George Washington. Unlike Washington, Mason has been virtually forgotten by history. But this new biography of forgotten patriot George Mason makes a convincing case that Mason belongs in the pantheon...

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Main Author: Hyland, William G., Jr., 1956- (Author)
Language:English
Published: Washington, DC : Regnery History, 2019.
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Physical Description:xxxiv, 491 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 24 cm
Format: Book

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505 0 |a Origins -- Ann Eilbeck Mason -- Gunston Hall -- The two Georges -- The Ohio company -- Revolutionary -- The Virginia Constitution -- War and death -- A new constitution for a new country -- The Philadelphia Convention -- Objections -- A slow poison -- The Virginia Ratifying Convention -- The true father of the Bill of Rights -- The shade of retirement -- The stage of human life -- A George Mason chronology -- George Mason's drafts for the Virginia Declaration of Rights and the Virginia Constitution (1776) -- George Mason's objections to the Federal Constitutions (1787). 
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