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n. (context US politics English) A meeting of the major figures in a political party to outline a party platform, set party rules, select a nominee for president as well as rally supporters.
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The National Convention was a single-chamber assembly in France from 20 September 1792 to 26 October 1795 (4 Brumaire IV under the Convention's adopted calendar) during the French Revolution. It succeeded the Legislative Assembly and founded the First Republic after the insurrection of 10 August 1792. The Legislative Assembly decreed the provisional suspension of King Louis XVI and the convocation of a National Convention which was to draw up a constitution. At the same time it was decided that deputies to that convention should be elected by all Frenchmen twenty-five years old or more, domiciled for a year and living by the product of their labor. The National Convention was therefore the first French assembly elected by universal male suffrage, without distinctions of class.
The National Convention was an alliance of political parties in South-West Africa. It was formed in 1971 when the International Court of Justice ruled that South African rule in Namibia was illegal, and it consisted of various pro-independence groups and parties, including the South West Africa National Union ( SWANU), the South West Africa Peoples Organization ( SWAPO) and the National Unity Democratic Organisation (NUDO) formed the National Convention as a united front against South African rule. Clemens Kapuuo was its first head.
A national convention is an official assembly of delegates from the nationwide branches of an organization.
National convention may refer to:
National Convention (, CN) was a political party in the Central African Republic led by David Galiambo.
Usage examples of "national convention".
The Legislative Assembly was closed and on the 21st of September of the year 1792, a new National Convention came together.
Everything else, including slavery, to be decided at a national convention.
Several days after I returned home from the Democratic National Convention at the end of August 1996, the private security guards we had hired to keep the swarming media at bay outside our Redding, Connecticut, home informed us that two FBI agents were coming up our driveway - with papers in hand.
Two years after the passage of the compromise acts the Democratic national convention assembled to nominate a candidate for the Presidency.
Al Gore famously inaugurated the family tragedy routine at the 1992 Democratic National Convention, where his idea of an inspiring political speech was to recount the story of his son being hit by a car.
Bolstering the medias message that Gore was very smartmaybe too smartduring the Democratic National Convention, an endless stream of Gores friends and relatives took the stage to issue personal testimonials about what a clever jokester Gore was in private.
Never wandering from his subject into vain declamation, but pursuing it closely in language pure, classical, and copious, soothing always the feelings of his adversaries by civilities and softness of expression, he rose to the eminent station which he held in the great National convention of 1787.
On the strength of this the leader of a few clubs in Paris are to depose the King, to violate the Legislative Assembly and decimate the National Convention.
She was talking about Paul, and said something about Anne Mie, and then about the National Convention, and those beasts and savages, but mostly about Paul.
But the Democratic National Convention went to New York in the Bicentennial year, and Puppetman knew that here was his moment.