{"version":1,"type":"rich","provider_name":"Libsyn","provider_url":"https:\/\/www.libsyn.com","height":90,"width":600,"title":"William G. Hyland, Jr. - George Mason, Forgotten Founding Father #4332","description":"\u201cTo disarm the people; that \u2026 was the best and most effectual way to enslave them.\u201d \u2014George Mason, the Founding Father who championed our God-given rights   Individual freedoms are under attack in America today. Too many have misinterpreted\u2014and even manipulated\u2014the words and intent of the Bill of Rights to fit their own agenda. The only way to know their true meaning is to understand their chief architect, George Mason.   George Mason: The Founding Father Who Gave Us The Bill of Rights by William G. Hyland Jr.    Mason is arguably America\u2019s most unappreciated and underestimated Founding Father. Now, historian William G. Hyland Jr. reclaims Mason for modern Americans at a time when the individual rights Mason secured at the beginning of the republic are under threat.   George Mason reveals the little-known truths about this forgotten Founding Father that made him a powerful contributor to the new nation: \u00b7 The Declaration of Independence was not Jefferson\u2019s original idea\u2014he adapted it directly from Mason\u2019s Virginia Declaration of Rights \u00b7 James Madison, the supposed \u201cFather of the Bill of Rights,\u201d strenuously opposed their addition to the Constitution while Mason avidly insisted on it \u00b7 The original declarations of our \u201cGod-given rights\u201d were forged from Mason\u2019s bookish knowledge of political history and philosophy, and his loyalty to liberty \u00b7 Mason was so dedicated to defending individual freedoms that he refused to sign the U.S. Constitution\u2014asserting it did not adequately uphold them \u00b7 He warned against the dangerous growth of the federal government\u2014especially an over-powerful executive branch and overweening judiciary   Like the words of the Constitution and the Declaration, Mason\u2019s life and work must be justly understood if our rights to speech, religion, and liberty are to have a chance of survival. This is the essential biography of an essential Founding Father. ","author_name":"Kerry Lutz's--Financial Survival Network","author_url":"https:\/\/FinancialSurvivalNetwork.com","html":"