Mr. President (2012)
“President: How and Why the Founders Created a Chief Executive CHAPTER SIXSelling the Plan George Mason stewed. His last-minute attempt to add a Bill of Rights had failed to garner the support of a single state delegation, his call for an executive council had fallen on deaf ears, and his final warning against “the danger of standing armies in time of peace” had been summarily dismissed. He was greatly concerned for the fate of the nation and the cause of liberty, and nobody seemed to be listeni...ng. So on the back of his copy of the Committee of Style’s printed draft, he “drew up some general objections, which I intended to offer, by way of protest,” as he reported to Thomas Jefferson, in France at the time, but he was “discouraged” from reading his objections on the floor “by the precipitate, & intemperate, not to say indecent manner, in which the business was conducted, during the last week of the convention, after the patrons of this new plan found they had a decided majority in their favour.”1 Mason’s first and primary objection was the absence of a “Declaration of Rights.”MoreLess
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