George Mason (1725-1792) was an American founding father. He wrote the Virginia Declaration of Rights, served in the Virginia House of Delegates, and was a delegate from Virginia to the Constitutional Convention.
All men are by nature born equally free and independent.
Does any man suppose that one general national government can exist in so extensive a country as this?
The British parliament was advised by an artful man, who was governor of Pennsylvania, to disarm the people. That it was the best and most effectual way to enslave them.
The very idea of converting what was formerly a confederation to a consolidated government is totally subversive of every principle which has hitherto governed.
Scott Bradford is a writer and technologist who has been putting his opinions online since 1995. He believes in three inviolable human rights: life, liberty, and property. He is a Catholic Christian who worships the trinitarian God described in the Nicene Creed. Scott is a husband, nerd, pet lover, and AMC/Jeep enthusiast with a B.S. degree in public administration from George Mason University.
