Constitutional Convention

noun

1. the convention in Philadelphia (1787) of representatives from each of the former Colonies, except Rhode Island, at which the Constitution of the United States was framed.

Constitutional Convention

1. The gathering that drafted the Constitution of the United States in 1787; all states were invited to send delegates. The convention, meeting in Philadelphia , designed a government with separate legislative , executive , and judicial branches . It established Congress as a lawmaking body with two houses: each state is given two representatives in the Senate , whereas representation in the House of Representatives is based on population.

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This effort would end up kicking off the race to the Constitutional Convention.

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That convention, though poorly attended, was the precursor to the Constitutional Convention.

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The book then races through the Constitutional Convention and the ratification.

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A constitutional amendment would take either a constitutional convention, or 38 states to ratify.

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Alexander Hamilton could only afford to stay briefly as a New York delegate to the Constitutional Convention.

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This fifth constitutional convention began in June 1901 and continued for approximately one year.

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The first Constitutional Convention of California declared against slavery.

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In 1848 he returned to California, where he was a member from Napa of the constitutional convention of 1849.

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Probate judge of the county for ten years and a delegate to the Constitutional Convention of 1895.

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St. Helena parish was entitled to one delegate to that constitutional convention.

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