George Mason, Forgotten Founder Jeff Broadwater.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Broadwater, Jeff.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Constitutional history--United States.

Constitutional history.

Politicians--Virginia--Biography.

Politicians.

Statesmen--United States--Biography.

Statesmen.

Virginia--History--1775-1865.

Virginia.

Virginia--History--Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775.

United States--History--Confederation, 1783-1789.

United States.

United States--History--Revolution, 1775-1783.

United States--History--Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775.

United States. Constitution--1st-10th Amendments.

Mason, George, 1725-1792.

Genre:

Electronic books.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (352 p.)

Manufacture:

Baltimore, Md. : Project MUSE, 2017

Place of Publication:

Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, 2006.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

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, a document often hailed as the model for the

Contents:

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.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references (p. [307]-322) and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

979-88-908791-8-9

1-4696-0514-7

0-8078-7739-5

OCLC:

793521639