If the legislature of South Carolina "anxiously desire" a general convention to consider their complaints, why have they not made application for it, in the way the constitution points out?
The State might have proposed the call for a general convention to the other States; and congress, if a sufficient number of them concurred, must have called it.
But if you were assembled in general Convention, which would you think the safest depository of this discretionary power in the last resort?
But if you were assembled in general convention, which would you think the safest depository of this discretionary power in the last resort?
If the legislature of South Carolina "anxiously desire" a general convention to consider their complaints, why have they not made application for it in the way the Constitution points out?
The State might have proposed the call for a general convention to the other States, and Congress, if a sufficient number of them concurred, must have called it.
Our ancestors, probably, committed a blunder in not having fixed upon every fifth decade for a call of a general convention to amend and reform the Constitution.
Five only responded, and they proposed a General Convention of all the States, to meet at Philadelphia.
Mr. NOYES:--Are we to understand that Virginia then asked for a General Convention to consider amendments to the Constitution?
Reports at Annapolis in favor of a general Convention to revise the federal system, 347.
Should these points be improperly settled, his wish would then be to bring the whole subject before another general Convention.
Be it known unto all men that we, the delegates of the people of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, in General Convention assembled," etc.
From that city had come the first suggestion of a General Convention of the People.
Further, that if the Government attacked the liberties of the people in the ways described above, the committee should call "a General Convention of the People for taking such measures under their consideration.
More alarming in reality were the preparations for a General Convention of the People.
Other Societies were soon formed, and on 11th December there assembled at Edinburgh a General Convention of Delegates from the Societies of the Friends of the People throughout Scotland.
The State might have proposed a call for a general convention to the other States, and Congress, if a sufficient number of them concurred, must have called it.
He seemed to favor the idea of an appeal for a general convention of all the States.
His suggestion was that a proposition should be made for a general convention of the States as provided for under the Constitution, and to propose some plan of compromising the angry disputes between the North and the South.
The Conventions of the different Dioceses elect Deputies to a General Convention, which is held once in three years.
Not forgetting the Perfidy of the Saxons, he held the General Convention beyond the Rhine, in the Town of Kufftein, according to the usual Custom.
In 1786 provision was made that "a bishop should always preside in General Convention, if any of the episcopal order were present.
The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "general convention" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.
