Mr. Norcross noted that as parties have turned to primaries and caucuses in recent decades, the importance of conventions and delegate counts has waned, lessening the impact of bonus delegates.
For all the discussion, local officials and campaign scholars play down the importance of the convention's location in the outcome of the election.
Editors Angela Coventry and Andrew Valls bring together a selection of writings from Hume's most important works, with contributors placing them in their appropriate context and offering a lively discourse on the relevance of Hume's thought to contemporary subjects like reason's dependence on emotion and the importance of social convention in political and economic behavior.
As such, Section 12 of the Act provides that, if a court is considering whether to grant relief which infringes on the right to freedom of expression (such as an injunction), it must "have particular regard to the importance of the Convention right to freedom of expression", although recognising the other limits put on this right.
In his opening speech, the UNICEF Representative in Belarus, Yuri Oksamitniy, reminded the participants aged 13-17 of the importance of the Convention on the Rights of the Child.
As the importance of the conventions declined, however, so too did the media coverage of them.
At the same time, Hume's account of justice and the artificial virtues does point to the importance of human conventions, which create or invent the institutions and practices associated with property and promising.
Early on, the NWPC ― which was then bipartisan ― recognized the importance of the conventions.
