This man led a failed campaign to require a two-thirds majority in order to pass commerce bills inCongress, and he engineered a compromise at the Constitutional Convention which ended up addingthe ability to ban the slave trade.
This man led a failed campaign to require a two-thirds majority in order to pass commerce bills inCongress, and he engineered a compromise at the Constitutional Convention which ended up addingthe ability to ban the slave trade. The sixteenth and final article of a text written by this resident ofGunston Hall states, "that religion Â… can be directed only by reason and conviction Â… and thereforeall men are equally entitled to the free exercise of religion". He declared "that all Men are bornequally free and independent" in his draft for his state's (*) Declaration of Rights. George Washingtonpresented a series of documents written by this man in reaction to the Coercive Acts titled the FairfaxCounty Resolves, although he split with Washington over ratification. For 10 points, name this father of theBill of Rights and namesake of a Northern Virginia university.
This man led a failed campaign to require a two-thirds majority in order to pass commerce bills inCongress, and he engineered a compromise at the Constitutional Convention which ended up addingthe ability to ban the slave trade.
George Mason IV