What is "convoking"

Usage examples of "convoking".

Whether settled periods of their convening, or a liberty left to the prince for convoking the legislative, or perhaps a mixture of both, hath the least inconvenience attending it, it is not my business here to inquire, but only to show that, though the executive power may have the prerogative of convoking and dissolving such conventions of the legislative, yet it is not thereby superior to it.

If, therefore, the executive who has the power of convoking the legislative, observing rather the true proportion than fashion of representation, regulates not by old custom, but true reason, the number of members in all places, that have a right to be distinctly represented, which no part of the people, however incorporated, can pretend to, but in proportion to the assistance which it affords to the public, it cannot be judged to have set up a new legislative, but to have restored the old and true one, and to have rectified the disorders which succession of time had insensibly as well as inevitably introduced.

Let us suppose, then, the legislative placed in the concurrence of three distinct persons: — First, a single hereditary person having the constant, supreme, executive power, and with it the power of convoking and dissolving the other two within certain periods of time.

He had set guards there, too, and advised her against it, at a time when news was rushing through late gatherings and convoking councils and speeding by quiet messengers wherever the king’s enemies and friends might gather.

Using a power that should reach the entire habitable surface of the world, he sent out a broadcast convoking a general session of the Council of Yeargroup One.