Source: Law & Liberty
by Daniel L Dreisbach
“On June 12, 1776, Virginia’s Fifth Revolutionary Convention unanimously passed the Virginia Declaration of Rights. A trenchant, post-colonial statement affirming humankind’s inherent rights, limited government, and republican principles, the Declaration is arguably the nation’s most imitated founding document and a pillar of American founding principles. George Mason, the Declaration’s principal draftsman, boasted that it was the first of its kind on the American continent. It distilled the great principles of liberty and constitutionalism that revolutionary Americans believed were derived from England’s ancient constitution, common law, and natural rights theory.” (06/15/26)
https://lawliberty.org/the-virginia-declaration-of-rights-at-250/