BrentRights From Tarter, in The Virginia Magazine of History and Biography (JulyThe Start 1991), Virginia Historical Society, P.O. BOX 7311, Richmond,
Va. 23221-031 1.
Two centuries ago, on Dec. 15, 1791, Vir- ginia became the 1 lth and final state to ratify the Bill of Rights. Today, Virginia's George Mason (1725-92), the principal au- thor of the state's famous Declaration of Rights and its Constitution of 1776, is hailed as one of the fathers of the Bill of Rights. As a delegate to the Constitutional...