![]() ![]() By 1788, in a change of style, Henry referred to the Declaration of Rights as a Bill of Rights. Saladino, eds., The Documentary History of the Ratification of the Constitution (Madison: State Historical Society of Wisconsin, 1993) Vol. 18 The Resolution for Independence on May 15, Declaration of Rights on June 12, and the Constitution on June 29 of 1776. 17 Generally ignoring, at our historical peril, the Articles of Confederation. 16 “Remarks on Annual Elections for the Fairfax Independent Company”, Rutland, ed. Peter Laslett, ed., John Locke Two Treatises of Government, (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1988), 366-367. Rutland, ed., The Papers of George Mason (Chapel Hill: The University of North Carolina Press, 1970) Vol. MacMaster, The Five George Masons (Lorton: The Board of Regents of Gunston Hall, 1975), 76. Jack Rakove, Revolutionaries, (Boston: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2010), 167. The classic study is Caroline Robbins’ The Eighteenth Century Commonwealthman. A brief survey of these works and writers would constitute a doctoral dissertation. Monahan, Cavaliers of the Northern Neck in the 17th Century, Northern Neck of Virginia Historical Magazine, Vol. David Hackett Fisher, Albion’s Seed, (New York: Oxford University Press, 1989), 207-218. Brock, eds., Abstract of the Proceedings of the Virginia 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 Company of London 1619-1624 (Delhi: 2018), 95. The Complete Concordance to the Bible-New King James Version (Nashville: Thomas Nelson Publishers, 1983), 153. This in the lone reference to Commonwealth in the King James Bible. James Horn, 1619 Jamestown and the Forging of American Democracy (New York: Basic Books, 2018), 120. ![]() Brent Tarter, ed., Revolutionary Virginia The Road to Independence (Charlottesville: University Press of Virginia, 1983) Vol. 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 the dish, and as Colonel Mason seems to have the Ascendancy in the great work, I have sanguine hopes it will be framed so as to Answer it’s end.” Letter of Edmund Pendleton to Thomas Jefferson, May 24, 1776, in David John Mays, ed., The Letters and Papers of Edmund Pendleton (Charlottesville: University Press of Virginia, 1967), Vol. ![]()
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