Question by that hockey chick: Why wouldn’t George Mason sign the Constitution?
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Answer by The REAL 0bama-Girl
Why? Aren’t there already enough signatures on it for your liking?
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Q&A: Why wouldn’t George Mason sign the Constitution?
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Jason W
December 19, 2010 at 10:49 pm
George Mason refused to sign the Constitution because he felt that it allocated too much power to the central government, and contained too few protections of state democracies and individual rights.
He is the person who was primarily responsible for getting the Bill of Rights attached to the constitution. However, whether it was because the Bill of Rights was not a part of the constitution at the time it was signed (the delegates had promised to add the amendments to the constitution at the first meeting of the new congress, a promise which they kept), or else because even with the Bill of Rights Mason felt the Constitution gave too much power to the federal government even with the amendments, he declined to sign it.