Definition of Constitutional Convention

1. Noun. The convention of United States statesmen who drafted the United States Constitution in 1787.

Generic synonyms: Convention
Member holonyms: Founding Father

Lexicographical Neighbors of Constitutional Convention

Consolida ambigua
Constance
Constant Lambert
Constant Spring
Constantin Brancusi
Constantine
Constantine I
Constantine the Great
Constantinian
Constantinople
Constantinopolitan
Constantinopolitans
Constitution
Constitution State
Constitution of the United States
Constitutional Convention (current term)
Constitutional Union Party
Constrictor constrictor
Conte Alessandro Giuseppe Antonio Anastasio Volta
Conte Alessandro Volta
Continent
Continental Army
Continental Congress
Continental Navy
Continents
Continuity Army Council
Continuity Irish Republican Army
Contopus
Contopus sordidulus
Contopus virens

Literary usage of Constitutional Convention

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Revision and Amendment of State Constitutions by Walter Fairleigh Dodd (1910)
"CHAPTER III THE LEGAL POSITION OF THE Constitutional Convention 1 A constitutional ... 244- 266; Debates Michigan Constitutional Convention of 1908, ii, ..."

2. The Federal and State Constitutions: Colonial Charters, and Other Organic by Francis N. Thorpe, United States (1909)
"The Debutes and Proceedings of the Constitutional Convention of the State of ... Journal of the Proceedings and Debates in the Constitutional Convention of ..."

3. The American Year Book: A Record of Events and Progress by Francis Graham Wickware, (, Albert Bushnell Hart, (, Simon Newton Dexter North (1916)
"In South Dakota and Tennessee the question of calling a constitutional convention will be submitted to the voters in 191(5, and in New Hampshire in ..."

4. History of Political Conventions in California by Winfield J. Davis (1893)
"Vallejo, MG, Member First Constitutional Convention, 1849, Sonoma District; Senator, Sonoma District, 1849-50. Died, Sonoma, January 1S, ..."

5. State Government in the United States by Arthur Norman Holcombe (1916)
"GROWTH OF POWER OF Constitutional Convention The widespread adoption of constitutional limitations upon legislative powers, apart from its effect upon the ..."

6. A Treatise on the Constitutional Limitations which Rest Upon the Legislative by Thomas McIntyre Cooley, Victor Hugo Lane (1903)
"... the successor to another, and in the particular in question essential changes have apparently been made.1 Proceedings of the Constitutional Convention. ..."

7. A Treatise on Constitutional Conventions: Their History, Powers, and Modes by John Alexander Jameson (1887)
"... (instances will be hereafter mentioned in which it has happened,) that the Constitutional Convention \ may, by usurpation, assume one or more of the ..."

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