George Mason: Virginia Declaration of Rights

Bibliography

Articles

• Bailey, Kenneth P. “George Mason, Westerner.” William and Mary College Quarterly, 2nd ser., 23, no. 4 (1943): 409–417.
• Bernstein, Mark. “‘The Necessity of Refusing My Signature.'” American History 41, no. 4 (2006): 50–55.
• Dreisbach, Daniel L. “George Mason's Pursuit of Religious Liberty in Revolutionary Virginia.” Virginia Magazine of History and Biography 108, no. 1 (2000): 5–44.
• Moore, R. Walton. “George Mason, The Statesman.” William and Mary College Quarterly, 2nd ser., 13, no. 1 (1933): 10–17.
• Morison, Samuel Eliot. “Prelude to Independence: The Virginia Resolutions of May 15, 1776.” William and Mary Quarterly, 3rd ser., 8, no. 4 (1951): 483–492.
• Scott, James Brown. “George Mason.” Virginia Law Register 12, no. 9 (1927): 556–561.
• ———. “George Mason: Remarks at the Celebration of the One Hundred and Fiftieth Anniversary of the Adoption of the Virginia Bill of Rights, Williamsburg, June 12, 1926.” William and Mary College Quarterly, 2nd ser., 7, no. 1 (1927): 17–20.
• Wallenstein, Peter. “Flawed Keepers of the Flame: The Interpreters of George Mason.” Virginia Magazine of History and Biography 102, no. 2 (1994): 229–270.

Books

• Acton, John. History of Freedom and Other Essays. London: Macmillan, 1907.
• Broadwater, Jeff. George Mason, Forgotten Founder. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2006.
• Cohen, Martin B., ed. Federalism: The Legacy of George Mason. Fairfax, Va.: George Mason University Press, 1988.
• Davidow, Robert P., ed. Natural Rights and Natural Law: The Legacy of George Mason. Fairfax, Va.: George Mason University Press, 1986.
• The George Mason Lectures: Honoring the Two Hundredth Anniversary of the Virginia Declaration of Rights, Adopted by the Virginia Convention, June 12, 1776. Williamsburg, Va.: Colonial Williamsburg Foundation, 1976.
• Haynes, Charles C., et al. First Freedoms: A Documentary History of First Amendment Rights in America. Oxford, U.K.: Oxford University Press, 2006.
• Henri, Florette. George Mason of Virginia. New York: Crowell-Collier Press, 1971.
• Hyland, William G., Jr. George Mason: The Founding Father Who Gave Us the Bill of Rights. Washington, DC: Regnery History, 2019.
• Miller, Helen Hill. George Mason, Constitutionalist. Gloucester, Mass.: P. Smith, 1966.
• ———. George Mason, Gentleman Revolutionary. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1975.
• Pacheco, Josephine F., ed. The Legacy of George Mason. Fairfax, Va.: George Mason University Press, 1983.
• Rowland, Kate Mason. The Life of George Mason, 1725–1792. New York: Putnam, 1892.
• Rusk, Dean. Mason and Jefferson Revisited: An Address on the Occasion of the Celebration of the Prelude to Independence at the Eighteenth-Century Capital, Williamsburg, Virginia, May 28, 1966. Williamsburg, Va.: Colonial Williamsburg, 1966.
• Rutland, Robert Allen. The Birth of the Bill of Rights, 1776–1791. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1955.
• ———. George Mason, Reluctant Statesman. Williamsburg, Va.: Colonial Williamsburg, 1961.
• Shumate, T. Daniel, ed. The First Amendment: The Legacy of George Mason. Fairfax, Va.: George Mason University Press, 1985.
• Vile, John R. More Than a Plea for a Declaration of Rights: The Constitutional and Political Thought of George Mason of Virginia. Clark, NJ: Lawbook Exchange, 2019.
• When Virginia Joined the Union: A Backward Look at the Powerful Prophecy of Men Who Foresaw in 1788 the Trend of Events in 1963. Richmond: Virginia Commission on Constitutional Government, 1963.

Web Sites

• “The Virginia Declaration of Rights.” Constitution Society Web site. http://www.constitution.org/bcp/virg_dor.htm. Accessed on October 25, 2007.
• “The Virginia Declaration of Rights.” American Treasures of the Library of Congress Web site. http://www.loc.gov/exhibits/treasures/trt006.html. Accessed on October 25, 2007.