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Definition of Constitutional Convention
1. Noun. The convention of United States statesmen who drafted the United States Constitution in 1787.
Lexicographical Neighbors of Constitutional Convention
Literary usage of Constitutional Convention
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Revision and Amendment of State Constitutions by Walter Fairleigh Dodd (1910)
"CHAPTER III THE LEGAL POSITION OF THE Constitutional Convention 1 A constitutional
... 244- 266; Debates Michigan Constitutional Convention of 1908, ii, ..."
2. The Federal and State Constitutions: Colonial Charters, and Other Organic by Francis N. Thorpe, United States (1909)
"The Debutes and Proceedings of the Constitutional Convention of the State of ...
Journal of the Proceedings and Debates in the Constitutional Convention of ..."
3. The American Year Book: A Record of Events and Progress by Francis Graham Wickware, (, Albert Bushnell Hart, (, Simon Newton Dexter North (1916)
"In South Dakota and Tennessee the question of calling a constitutional convention
will be submitted to the voters in 191(5, and in New Hampshire in ..."
4. History of Political Conventions in California by Winfield J. Davis (1893)
"Vallejo, MG, Member First Constitutional Convention, 1849, Sonoma District;
Senator, Sonoma District, 1849-50. Died, Sonoma, January 1S, ..."
5. State Government in the United States by Arthur Norman Holcombe (1916)
"GROWTH OF POWER OF Constitutional Convention The widespread adoption of constitutional
limitations upon legislative powers, apart from its effect upon the ..."
6. A Treatise on the Constitutional Limitations which Rest Upon the Legislative by Thomas McIntyre Cooley, Victor Hugo Lane (1903)
"... the successor to another, and in the particular in question essential changes
have apparently been made.1 Proceedings of the Constitutional Convention. ..."
7. A Treatise on Constitutional Conventions: Their History, Powers, and Modes by John Alexander Jameson (1887)
"... (instances will be hereafter mentioned in which it has happened,) that the
Constitutional Convention \ may, by usurpation, assume one or more of the ..."
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