Constitutional convention
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Constitutional convention may refer to:
- Constitutional convention (political custom), an informal and unmodified procedural agreement.
- Constitutional convention (political meeting), a meeting of delegates to adopt a new constitution or revise an existing constitution. According to Russell Caplan, the assembly of the English nobles at Runnymede in 1215 was the prototype for a constitutional convention.[1]
- Philadelphia Convention, of 1787, resulted in the United States Constitution
- Convention to propose amendments to the United States Constitution As provided for in Article V of the U.S. Constitution, two-thirds of the states would initiate the convention for proposing amendment(s), thus bypassing the U.S. Government headquartered in Washington, D.C. To date such a convention has never convened, although the various states have submitted hundreds of applications down through the decades.[2]
- Missouri Constitutional Convention (1861-63), Missouri's provisional government during American Civil War
- The National Convention during the French Revolution, which ruled the country for three years, 1792-95, rather than (as originally conceived) merely writing a new constitution for the country.
- Constitutional Convention (Australia), five distinct gatherings
- Constitutional Convention (Philippines)
- Cornish Constitutional Convention - The Campaign for a Cornish Assembly
- English Constitutional Convention
- Scottish Constitutional Convention
[edit] Endnotes
- ^ Russell L. Caplan, Constitutional Brinksmanship, Amending the Constitution by National Convention (New York: Oxford University Press, 1988), p. 5. For an online analysis based in part on Caplan's eminent research, see Robert Struble, Jr., Treatise on Twelve Lights, chapter four, subsection entitled The Article V Amending Provisions
- ^ For extensive online materials about an Article V Convention see the Friends of an Article V Convention web site at FOAVC