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100	1		_aBroadwater, Jeff. _915702
245	1	0	_aGeorge Mason : _cJeff Broadwater. _bforgotten father /
260			_aChapel Hill : _bUniversity of North Carolina Press, _cc2006.
300			_axii, 329 p., [8] p. of plates : _bill., map ; _c25 cm.
504			_aIncludes bibliographical references (p. [307]-322) and index.
505	0		_aA 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.
520			_aFrom 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
600	1	0	_aMason, George, _d1725-1792. _915703
610	1	0	_aUnited States. _tConstitution. _n1st-10th Amendments. _915704
650		0	_aStatesmen _zUnited States _vBiography. _915705
650		0	_aPoliticians _zVirginia _vBiography. _915706
650		0	_aConstitutional history _zUnited States. _915068
651		0	_aUnited States _xHistory _yColonial period, ca. 1600-1775. _99615
651		0	_aUnited States _xHistory _yRevolution, 1775-1783. _98148
651		0	_aUnited States _xHistory _yConfederation, 1783-1789. _915707
651		0	_aVirginia _xHistory _yColonial period, ca. 1600-1775. _915708
651		0	_aVirginia _xHistory _y1775-1865. _915709
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