Jeff Broadwater's George Mason, Forgotten Founder PDF

By Jeff Broadwater

ISBN-10: 0807830534

ISBN-13: 9780807830536

George Mason (1725-92) is frequently passed over from the small circle of founding fathers celebrated at the present time, yet in his provider to the United States he used to be, within the phrases of Thomas Jefferson, ''of the 1st order of greatness.'' Jeff Broadwater offers a accomplished account of Mason's existence on the middle of the momentous occasions of eighteenth-century America.

Mason performed a key position within the Stamp Act quandary, the yank Revolution, and the drafting of Virginia's first country structure. he's probably most sensible referred to as writer of the Virginia announcement of Rights, frequently hailed because the version for the invoice of Rights.

As a Virginia delegate to the Constitutional conference in Philadelphia, Mason prompted the rising structure on element after aspect. but whilst he was once rebuffed in his efforts so as to add a invoice of rights and felt the rfile did too little to guard the pursuits of the South, he refused to signal the ultimate draft. Broadwater argues that Mason's recalcitrance was once no longer the act of an remoted dissenter; quite, it emerged from the ideology of the yank Revolution. Mason's matters in regards to the abuse of political strength went to the essence of the yank adventure

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It enjoyed little support among the burgesses as a group or among the general public, in part because fertile land was available to the south, along Virginia’s lateral valleys, with less risk of provoking an Indian war. A demand existed for western land, but enterprising colonists could ex- a r et r e at of h e roes 27 tend the frontier without the assistance of the Ohio Company. Orderly settlement collapsed after the frontier crossed the Appalachians. ”81 The virtual monopoly the Ohio Company wanted might have done more to retard westward expansion than to encourage it.

Black rights were always weighed against, and diluted by, concerns about the interests of white society. Prejudice against blacks ran too deep for it to be otherwise. Benjamin Franklin and Thomas Jefferson, perhaps the two finest minds in eighteenth-century America, both expressed views on race that today would be condemned as blatantly racist. ”18 Hostility toward slavery, in reality, stemmed in part from a hostility to- 36 our all is at sta k e ward blacks, which in turn crippled the antislavery cause.

The House boasted an impressive cadre of leaders, including Richard Bland, Edmund Pendleton, and George Wythe, and a host of rising stars. Mason’s freshman class included his younger brother, Thomson, elected as a delegate from Stafford County, and Richard Henry Lee from Westmoreland. The assembly’s power derived in part from the wealth and influence of its members and, perhaps, from a relative unity of interests and opinions. Virtually every burgess was a planter, and most held local offices, usually as a vestryman and justice of the peace.

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