George+Mason's+Delegate+Profile

=__George Mason__= toc

__Profile Questions__
**Answer:Hi my name is George Mason.I was born on december 11, 1725** in northern virgina.I was 10 when my father george died. My mansion is known as Gunston Hall.I am a tobacco planter.I married my first wife Ann Eilbeck in 1750 and had twelve kids. Nine of them survived to Adulthood. I served in the third, fourth, and fifth Virginia Revoulutionary conventions and created the first draft of the Virginia Declaration of rights in the May of 1776 and the first Virginia Constitution in June of the same year. I also served in the House of Buresses. I didn't sign the constitution because I thought the Government would have to much power, It didn't have a Bill of Rights, and It blanded not separated. When my fist wife Ann died I married Sarah Brent in 1780. I died at Gunston Hall in 1792. **Question: Which should be stronger, the state government or the national government? Why? **
 * Question: How about a brief biography? What is your background? **
 * Answer:national government because if we give to much power to the states it would be like 13 different countries instead of one country and 13 states.Also if the State Governments were more powerful than the National Government we wouldn't be able to tax the states to pay of our debt from the war, and to create an army. **
 * Question: How should we determine the representation of the states in Congress? By population, money, equality...? **
 * Answer:population because the more people the more delegates the more your opinions are looked at. **


 * Question: Who should vote for the members of the legislature, and why? **
 * Answer:The people because we are a republic. **
 * Question: Should we have one or more than one chief executive? Why? **
 * Answer:I think we should have one chief but this chief should have a right hand man and like the virginia plan states we should have three branches of Government. **
 * Question; What kind of powers should the Chief Executive or Executives have? **
 * Answer: To tax, regulate trade, create an army,print money, and to create laws. ** **Question: Who should elect the chief executive(s)? **
 * Answer:The legislature that I think should be elected by the educated people of the United States of America. ****Question: What should be done about slavery in the United States? Should it be kept or outlawed? **
 * Answer:I think slavery should be outlawed and "that all men are born equally free and Independent, and have certain inherent natural Rights... among which are the Enjoyments of Life and Liberty, with the means of acquiring and pursueing and obtaining Happiness and Saftey." -George Mason. Virginia Declaration of Rights, May,1776. I have slaves but I don't want slavery to expand and I want the states to outlaw it and not the National Government because it would threaten state rights. ****<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 14px;">Question: Should slaves count in the population toward representation? Why or why not? **
 * <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 14px;">Answer:I think No because slaves are looked as property. ****<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 14px;">Question: Should the national government be able to regulate the commerce of the United States? Why or why not? **
 * <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 14px;">Answer:Yes the National Government should regulate the commerce of the United States because it would be better than having the state government do it. **

__Friends__
Thomas Jefferson George Washington John Blair Edmund J. Randolph James McClurg George Wythe

__Groups__
virginians virginia plan Big States Third Virginia Revolutionary Convention Fourth Virginia Revolutionary Convention Fifth Virginia Revolutionary Convention

__References__
[] [|http://www.archives.gov/exhibits/charters/constitution_founding_fathers_virginia.html#Mason] []