Tuhia he haere tonu mo tenei whitianga - I whakareri a Mason i te tuhinga tuatahi o te Whakapuakitanga Tika a Virginia i te tau 1776, ana ko ana kupu te nuinga o te tuhinga i whakaaetia e te Whakataunga Whakataunga o Virginia. I tuhia hoki e ia he kaupapa ture mo te kawanatanga; I rapu a Thomas Jefferson me etahi atu kia whakaaetia e te huihuinga a raatau whakaaro, engari i kitea e raatau kaore e taea te aukati i te putanga a Mason. I te wā o te American Revolutionary War, he mema a Mason o te Whare Mana o te Virginia General Assembly, engari, i te riri o Washington me ētahi atu, ka whakakahore ia ki te mahi i te Continental Congress
i Philadelphia, e kī ana i ngā here hauora me te whānau.