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en-wikipedia-org-7919		George Mason - Wikipedia			.html	text/html	15225	1422	68	His writings, including substantial portions of the Fairfax Resolves of 1774, the Virginia Declaration of Rights of 1776, and his Objections to this Constitution of Government (1787) opposing ratification, have exercised a significant influence on American political thought and events. During the American Revolutionary War, Mason was a member of the powerful House of Delegates of the Virginia General Assembly but, to the irritation of Washington and others, he refused to serve in the Continental Congress in Philadelphia, citing health and family commitments. Joseph Horrell, in a journal article on Mason's court service, noted that he was often in poor health, and lived the furthest of any of the major estateholders from the Fairfax County courthouse, whether at its original site near today's Tyson's Corner or later in newly founded Alexandria. George Mason, draft of Article 1 of the Virginia Declaration of Rights, 1776.[49]	./cache/en-wikipedia-org-7919.html	./txt/en-wikipedia-org-7919.txt