George Mason Quotes
As nations can not be rewarded or punished in the next world they must be in this.
Mason, George. Address to the Constitutional Convention. 22 Aug. 1787. The Records of the Federal Convention of 1787, edited by Max Farrand, vol. 2, Yale University Press, 1911, p. 370.
George Mason IV was an American planter, politician and delegate to the U.S. Constitutional Convention of 1787, one of three delegates who refused to sign the Constitution. His writings, including substantial portions of the Fairfax Resolves of 1774, the Virginia Declaration of Rights of 1776, and his Objections to this Constitution of Government (1787) opposing ratification, have exercised a significant influence on American political thought and events. The Virginia Declaration of Rights, which Mason principally authored, served as a basis for the United States Bill of Rights, a document of which he has been deemed a father.
