Who Really Wrote the Bill of Rights?

George Mason was given most of the credit for the language in the Bill of Rights, while James Madison was given credit for some of the language and mostly, his political muscle in its passage. Jefferson was in France as the U.S. Ambassador; however, the letters exchanged between both Madison and Mason with Jefferson, clearly point to Jefferson as the "ghost writer". Jefferson was a fan of adding a bill of rights to the Constitution, telling Madison in a Dec. 20, 1787, letter that it was a glaring hole in the Constitution that emerged from the convention. “[A] bill of rights is what the people are entitled to against every government on earth, general or particular; and what no just government should refuse or rest on inference,” Jefferson wrote.