Fairfax County Resolves
George Mason (1725-1792)
Fairfax County Resolves
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Holograph manuscript, 1774
Manuscript Division
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The Fairfax County Resolves, written by George Mason
and George Washington on July 17, 1774, was the first clear statement
of fundamental constitutional rights of the British American colonies
as subjects of the Crown. Adopted the next day by the Fairfax County
convention, which met to protest British retaliations against Massachusetts
after the Boston Tea Party, the resolves call for a "firm Union"
of the colonies, because an injury against one colony is "aimed
at all."
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