USA HISTORY

Detailed explanation-1: -Written by George Mason, it was adopted by the Virginia Constitutional Convention on June 12, 1776.

Detailed explanation-2: -In June 1776, George Mason led a committee drafting the Virginia Declaration of Rights at the Virginia Convention that was writing a state constitution. The document declared the natural rights of all humans and proclaimed essential civil liberties, including religious freedom.

Detailed explanation-3: -George Mason of Fairfax County, Virginia, wrote the Virginia Declaration of Rights, on which the Declaration of Independence and the Bill of Rights are modeled. Mason refused to support the original Constitution because it failed to protect essential liberties.

Detailed explanation-4: -The most influential of these charters of freedom was the Virginia Declaration of Rights-authored primarily by George Mason. Adopted by the Virginia House of Delegates in June 1776, the Virginia Declaration of Rights was part of the 1776 Virginia Constitution.

Detailed explanation-5: -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.