Tuesday, June 12, 2007
This Day in American History
On this day in 1776, the Virginia Convention, assembled in Williamsburg, unanimously adopts George Mason’s declaration of rights. Ultimately derived from the 1689 English Bill of Rights, the concept of individual rights was put into our Constitution by amendment two decades later. Although Madison should get the lion's share of credit for the Constitution, Mason should get the same for the first ten amendments.
Labels: Virginia Bill of Rights
# posted by Roger Fraley @ 7:10 AM 
