USA HISTORY

Detailed explanation-1: -As a delegate to the Constitutional Convention, Mason refused to sign the Constitution and lobbied against its ratification in his home state, believing the document as drafted gave too much power to a central government and was incomplete absent a bill of rights to guarantee individual liberty.

Detailed explanation-2: -Three delegates, Elbridge Gerry of Massachusetts, George Mason of Virginia, and Randolph, did not sign it at all.

Detailed explanation-3: -Three delegates-Elbridge Gerry of Massachusetts and Edmund Randolph and George Mason of Virginia-were dissatisfied with the final document and refused to ink their signatures.

Detailed explanation-4: -George Mason IV (1725–1792), a Virginia planter, statesman and one of the founders of the United States, is best known for his proposal of a bill of rights at the Constitutional Convention of 1787.