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Founding Father George Mason Was First to Draft a Bill of Rights

Founding Father George Mason Was First to Draft a Bill of Rights

Here's a Stafford County, Virginia student's brief ‘Crash Course’ lecture about him, plus a documentary from George Mason University students

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Here’s an example of what a student can do with today’s technology: model your own video after John Green’s “Crash Course” history lectures, complete with the swivel chair. This student focused on county history, and focused on a founding father from Stafford County, Virgina. The colony’s Declaration of Rights was written by George Mason (1725-1792), an…

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