With the compelling Spanish Armada out for the count, it opened the entryway for the investigation of the American landmass by the French and the British. As these two countries developed provinces in the "new world" they turned out to be increasingly affluent. England, which hadn't almost enough farmland to equip an armed force, and a deficiency of timber that made maritime extension troublesome, looked for both of these things in the American landmass.
Answer: George Mason refused to sign the Constitution and opposed it's ratification, believing the document as drafted gave too much power to a central government and was incomplete absent a bill of rights to guarantee individual liberty.
