George Mason's greatest accomplishment was being the founding father of the
national Bill of Rights. He was a planter from Virginia, had grown up rich on
one of the nicest and best plantations in Alexandria, Fairfax County, Virginia.
He was an important member of the town's church, had all the best tutors growing
up, and had been raised to be a Virginian aristocrat (Miers 39).
Mason married 'well' and had a large family of nine kids. He raised them in
Gunston Hall, a house which he had built himself (Miers 41).
He was the type of guy who, if he believed strongly enough, did not abandon his
beliefs. He strongly believed in the cause for the American Revolution (he had
given his son a plantation named 'Lexington'), in citizen's rights, and a
non-tyrannical central government (Miers 41). He was known as a great debater,
the best that James Madison had ever seen. Mason spoke up many times during the
constitutional convention, about different subjects he strongly......
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