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As the Revolutionary War intensified, George Mason was elected to represent Fairfax County at the Virginia Convention held in May of 1776. Patrick Henry informed the delegates that Congress was instructing the colonies to draft their own constitutions and declaration of rights. As part of a thirty-man committee, it was George Mason who drafted the Virginia Declaration of Rights. The declaration was presented to Congress in mid-June, making it the first Bill of Rights in the country. A few weeks later Thomas Jefferson would liberally quote from the Virginia Declaration of Rights while writing the Declaration of Independence.
At the conclusion of the Constitutional Convention of 1787, George Mason refused to sign the Constitution, in part because it failed to protect the rights of the individual citizen. In 1789, three years before George Mason's death, Congress amended the Constitution. The first ten amendments were a revised version of the Virginia Declaration of Rights. (Hits: 878)
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