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George Mason was an Anti-Federalist. Mason represented Virginia. He was a planter as well as a political leader. Positions held included justice of the Fairfax County court, trustee of the city of Alexandria, and member of the House of Burgesses. Mason framed Virginia’s Declaration of Rights, which was used as a model for other states as well as being the basis for the federal Constitution’s Bill of Rights. George Mason was a delegate at the Constitutional Convention, as an Anti-Federalist, he spoke against the Constitution, believing it should also include a Bill of Rights but that the government system should be tweaked. In the last two weeks of the convention he decided not to sign the Constitution. Friends included Eldridge Gerry, Edmund Randolph, and Patrick Henry.

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