George Mason, Forgotten Founder. By Jeff Broadwater. (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, c. 2006. Pp. [xiv], 329. $34.95, ISBN 978-0-8078-3053-6.)

During the Constitutional Convention of 1787, only about a dozen of its delegates actively participated in the debates that shaped the new Constitution. When the convention ended on September 17, 1787, only three delegates refused to sign the document. George Mason was in both camps, easily one of the most involved delegates at the convention but also one of the nation's first Anti-Federalists. "But what do we really know about him?" Jeff Broadwater asks. His answer: "Probably not much, and some of what we think we ...