The Legacy of George Mason Archives are the records and papers of the series of annual lectures organized between 1982 and 1991 by the George Mason Center for the Study of Constitutional Rights, previously the George Mason Project for the Study of Human Rights. One of the primary goals of the lecture series was the celebration of the bicentennial of the United States Constitution and Bill of Rights, seeking to demonstrate the centrality of the ideas of George Mason in the creation of the great documents that proved to be the culmination of the American revolutionary experience.

      There were four lectures given each year under the headings: the Legacy of George Mason; the First Amendment; Natural Rights and Natural Law; Federalism; Will of the People; the Allocation of Powers in the Federal Government (Separation of Powers in the American Political System); Antifederalism; America and the Rights of Man (An International Perspective of Human Rights); To Secure the Blessings of Liberty: Rights in American History; and the Bill of Rights, the Courts, and the Law. The archives, which extend to thirty-five linear feet (some 17,000 papers and 200 tapes) include the papers of the organizers of the series, the edited and unedited videocassettes of the audiocassettes of the actual lectures and copies of the books published on each series of lectures.