George Mason's ideas helped to shape the Founding documents of the United States, but few Americans remember him today. The words he used when writing the Virginia Declaration of Rights and the Virginia Constitution of 1776 inspired the nation's Declaration of Independence and Bill of Rights. Mason was an associate of fellow Virginians George Washington, James Madison, and Thomas Jefferson, the last of whom called Mason "a man of the first order of greatness."

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founding fathers, virginia delegates, delegates of the constitutional convention, george mason

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• Knovation Readability Score: 5 (1 low difficulty, 5 high difficulty)