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George Mason
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A call for American independence from Britain, the Virginia Declaration of Rights was drafted by George Mason in May 1776 and amended by Thomas Ludwell Lee and the Virginia Convention.

Thomas Jefferson drew heavily from it when he drafted the Declaration of Independence one month later.

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