George Mason Memorial
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IUCN category V (protected landscape/seascape)
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| Location | Washington, D.C., United States |
| Coordinates | 38°52′46″N 77°2′21″W / 38.87944°N 77.03917°WCoordinates: 38°52′46″N 77°2′21″W / 38.87944°N 77.03917°W |
| Established | Authorized: 1990 Groundbroken: 2000 Dedicated: 2002 |
| Governing body | National Park Service |
| Website | George Mason Memorial |
The George Mason Memorial is a national memorial to Founding Father George Mason, the author of the Virginia Declaration of Rights that inspired the United States Bill of Rights. The Memorial is located in West Potomac Park within Washington, D.C. at 24 E Basin Drive SW, which is a part of the Tidal Basin. Authorized in 1990, with a groundbreaking in 2000 and dedication in 2002, the memorial includes a sculpture of Mason, a pool, trellis, circular hedges, and numerous inscriptions. This is the first memorial to be dedicated not to a former president in the Tidal Basin, and the current last memorial built on the National Mall.
The memorial commemorates the contributions of Mason, a Founding Father who wrote the Virginia Declaration of Rights, served as a delegate to the 1787 Constitutional Convention in Philadelphia, and created much of the language, inspiration, and groundwork for what became the United States Bill of Rights. Mason, an Anti-Federalist, did not sign the United States Constitution because it did not abolish the slave trade and because he did not think it had necessary protection for the individual from the federal government. He was sometimes known as the "reluctant statesman", which was also the title of a biography written about him by Robert A. Rutland.
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