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

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