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George Mason Memorial
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Paula
September 28, 2022
Visit the George Mason Memorial located along the Tidal Basin between the Jefferson Memorial and the FDR Memorial. George Mason was the author of the Virginia Declaration of Rights, which served as an inspiration to Thomas Jefferson while drafting the Declaration of Independence. Mason later served as a delegate to the Constitutional Convention in Philadelphia in 1787. Mason also withheld his signature from the United States Constitution because it did not abolish the slave trade and felt it lacked necessary protection for the individual from the federal government.
Visit the George Mason Memorial located along the Tidal Basin between the Jefferson Memorial and the FDR Memorial. George Mason was the author of the Virginia Declaration of Rights, which served as an inspiration to Thomas Jefferson while drafting the Declaration of Independence. Mason later served…
Larry And Paulette
May 17, 2013
"Forgotten Founder" & "Reluctant Statesman." Mason, anti-Federalist, did not sign constitution because it did not abolish slave trade & felt it didn't offer citizens protection from the federal govt.
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Ubicación
900 Ohio Dr SW
Washington, DC
Southwest Washington