Sentence examples for convention of delegates from inspiring English sources

The second book, which is actually two volumes bound together, is "The Proceedings of the Convention of Delegates" bound with "Ordinances Passed at a General Convention of Delegates," both published in 1776.

The state's unusual method for choosing Supreme Court candidates through a convention of delegates picked by party leaders, rather than through primary elections, has come under particular criticism.

Any candidate who campaigns in a state that does not abide by the new calendar will be stripped at the party convention of delegates won in that state.

In its final report to the governor and the Legislature yesterday, the commission, which conducted hearings across the state, urged a convention of delegates to be chosen in a nonpartisan election next November.

The new union's supreme powers were vested in a legislative body, the Convention of Delegates (Zjazd Delegatów).

Afterward, the Constitution was presented to the Articles of Confederation Congress with the request that it afterwards be submitted to a convention of delegates, chosen in each State by the people, for their assent and ratification.

Political convention, meeting of delegates of a political party at the local, state, provincial, or national level to select candidates for office and to decide party policy.

In a contested convention, thousands of delegates would be on the floor voting through multiple rounds for a nominee as the candidates duke it out to win states to their side.

In Dublin in 1792 he organized a Roman Catholic convention of elected delegates that forced Parliament to pass the Catholic Relief Act of 1793.

Although its Connecticut organization has endorsed it, the General Synod, a national convention of church delegates, has not yet considered the issue (it is on the agenda for the session beginning tomorrow).

Borrowing from the resolutions of the Convention of 1832, delegates wrote into the constitution a guarantee of free public education.