Sentence examples for special convention from inspiring English sources

(If any candidate fails to reach this threshold, the nominee is decided at a special convention).

They call a special convention, supposedly composed of representatives who are directly representative of the people.

TAD BRENNAN: I hadn't known that, the nature of the special convention.

On Dec. 20, 1860, a special convention called in South Carolina unanimously passed an ordinance of secession.

In late June, Mr. Shono convened a special convention of monks intended to end months of bickering.

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3. Their special Conventions.

And they left its ratification to directly elected special conventions.

This one was unusual in two other ways: It was an individual competition, and no special conventions were allowed.

ED BAPTIST: Well, I think the other piece of it is that this is exactly how the Constitution was ratified between 1787 and 1789 not by the sitting state legislatures but by special conventions.

This system of constitutional sovereignty was made more complex by the fact that the authority to propose changes in the Constitution and to approve them was vested not only in Congress but also in states and in special conventions called for that purpose.