George Mason Quotes
it would be so dangerous for the Executive in a single Person to negative a Law that the People will not accept of it.
A veto power for the President would be absurd because
George Mason, 1725-1792, Member, Virginia & Federal Constitutional Conventions, Debate, Constitutional Convention, Philadelphia, 1787, Quoted in the notes of Georgia Delegate William Leigh Pierce, ~1740-1789
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In 1628 Parliament, in response to abuses by King Charles I, was about to pass The Petition of Rights–-a type of Bill of Rights. The King gave assurances that the practices—such as forcing nobles to lend him money—would not continue and didn't want to be embarrassed by passage of a law which he claimed would indicate that the Parliament did not trust him and weaken the dignity of the monarchy. The Petition of Rights passed with Cole’s leadership.
President Abraham Lincoln had pocket vetoed his own party's reconstruction bill in the midst of an election year.
The issue of impeachment and termination of the executive also found little agreement.
His main reason for believing this is that all appropriations bills must be initiated by the House of Representatives. Lobbyists therefore often give the House more attention than the Senate.
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.
