02928cam a2200385 a 4500 67239589 MeVbMML 20250708135311.0 060331s2006 ncuabf b s001 0beng 2006010729 0807830534 (cloth : alk. paper) 9780807830536 DLC DLC BAKER C#P UtOrBLW AJM n-us--- n-us-va BYNN 973.3092 B 22 Broadwater, Jeff. 15702 George Mason : Jeff Broadwater. forgotten father / Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, c2006. xii, 329 p., [8] p. of plates : ill., map ; 25 cm. Includes bibliographical references (p. [307]-322) and index. A retreat of heroes -- Our all is at stake -- The fundamental principle -- The most important of all subjects -- Growing from bad to worse -- Liberty and independence -- One of the best politicians in America -- The sanction of their names -- That paper on the table -- I am grown old. From the Publisher: George Mason (1725-92) is often omitted from the small circle of founding fathers celebrated today, but in his service to America he was, in the words of Thomas Jefferson, "of the first order of greatness." Jeff Broadwater provides a comprehensive account of Mason's life at the center of the momentous events of eighteenth-century America. Mason played a key role in the Stamp Act Crisis, the American Revolution, and the drafting of Virginia's first state constitution. He is perhaps best known as author of the Virginia Declaration of Rights, often hailed as the model for the Bill of Rights. As a Virginia delegate to the Constitutional Convention in Philadelphia, Mason influenced the emerging Constitution on point after point. Yet when he was rebuffed in his efforts to add a bill of rights and felt the document did too little to protect the interests of the South, he refused to sign the final draft. Broadwater argues that Mason's recalcitrance was not the act of an isolated dissenter; rather, it emerged from the ideology of the American Revolution. Mason's concerns about the abuse of political power went to the essence of the American experience Mason, George, 1725-1792. 15703 United States. Constitution. 1st-10th Amendments. 15704 Statesmen United States Biography. 15705 Politicians Virginia Biography. 15706 Constitutional history United States. 15068 United States History Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775. 9615 United States History Revolution, 1775-1783. 8148 United States History Confederation, 1783-1789. 15707 Virginia History Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775. 15708 Virginia History 1775-1865. 15709 ddc BOOK 29303 29303 ddc 0 0 ABELJ ABELJ B 2024-02-09 30.00 0 B MASON 65803 2024-02-09 2024-02-09 BOOK 1