Get the book, Prayers and Presidents - Inspiring Faith from Leaders of the PastOn August 22, 1787, George Mason stated:
"Every
master of slaves is born a petty tyrant. They bring the judgment of
heaven upon a country. As nations cannot be rewarded or punished in the
next world, they must be in this.
By an inevitable chain of causes and effects, Providence punishes national sins, by national calamities."
George Mason stated before the General Court of Virginia:
"The laws of nature are the laws of God, whose authority can be superseded by no power on earth."
This phrase of Mason's was mirrored in the Declaration of Independence as
"the laws of nature and nature's God."
George Mason joined with Patrick Henry and Samuel Adams in an effort to prevent the Constitution from being ratified.
They
feared that too much power concentrated into the hands of the Federal
Government would result in the same trampling of individual rights that
King George III perpetrated.
George Mason's opposition to the Constitution cost him his friendship with George Washington.
When
the Constitution was ratified, George Mason led the charge in
insisting that in the first session of Congress there should be ten
limitations or "Amendments" put in place which would restrict the power
of the new Federal Government.
American Minute-Notable Events of American Significance Remembered on the Date They Occurred George Mason suggested the wording of the First Amendment be:
"All
men have an equal, natural and unalienable right to the free exercise
of religion, according to the dictates of conscience; and that no
particular sect or society of Christians ought to be favored or
established by law in preference to others."
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