Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit...

[David Casseres]

But I don't think George Mason was related to Charles Mason.  Still,
Our Author might perhaps have been struck by the Similarity of Names,
and perhaps one Thought followed Another...

On 10/26/06, rich <richard.romeo at gmail.com> wrote:
> we all remember Jefferson overhearing Dixon's toast in Virginia and
> scribbling down for future use in Declaration of Independence.
>
> Came across this tidbit in the Washington Monthly, nov 8 issue
>
> The author of the Virginia Declaration of Rights, which apparently Jefferson
> read and plagiarized from when writing the DoI, was George Mason.
>
> as noted in the magazine--Jefferson was the better writer but it was Mason's
> ideas.
>
> if this has been mentioned before, my apologies.  but pretty neat
> coincidence and maybe a wink by Pynchon
>
> rich