George
Mason
1754-1759
—
Trustee of Alexandria, Justice of the Fairfax County Court, and Vestryman of Truro
Parish . . . 1759 elected to Virginia House of Burgesses (1759) . . . Member of the
Constitutional Convention (1776) . . . Drafted the Bill of Rights (1725-1792).
From
debates of the Constitutional Convention, Aug. 22, 1787, America's God and
Country, William Federer, p.423:
"As nations cannot
be rewarded or punished in the next world, so they must be in this, by an inevitable
chain of causes and effects. Providence punishes national sins by national calamities.[43]
"My soul I resign into the hands of my Almighty Creator, whose tender mercies are all over His works . . . "[9]