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At the U.S. Constitutional Convention in 1787, the Virginia Plan contained a similar Council of Revision for the national government.
Significant actions of the General Assembly include the calling of the constitutional convention which became the first to ratify the United States Constitution in 1787 (which led to Delaware's state nickname, "the First State"), and its rejection of secession from the Union on January 3, 1861, even though Delaware was a slave state.
The speech was purportedly transcribed by Charles Cotesworth Pinckney during the Constitutional Convention of 1787, but was unknown before its appearance in 1934 in the pages of William Dudley Pelley's Silver Legion pro-Nazi weekly magazine Liberation.
Initially representing black ex-slaves at the state's constitutional convention, Jackson is elected to the state legislature and eventually to the US Senate, while facing opposition from white landowners, law enforcement, and the Ku Klux Klan.
But he was devoted to the idea of a permanent union of the newly independent states and loyally supported fellow Virginians James Madison and George Washington at the Constitutional Convention.
The President of the Executive Council was appointed by the governor-general, though the governor-general was bound by constitutional convention to appoint the individual nominated by the Dáil.
This rotation is a constitutional convention known as the “Königstein agreement” (Königsteiner Vereinbarung), having been formulated at a 1950 seating in Königstein im Taunus, Hessen.
Senatorial courtesy is an unwritten political custom (or constitutional convention) in the United States whereby the president consults the senior U.S. Senator of his political party of a given state before nominating any person to a federal vacancy within that Senator's state.
He argues that a constitutional convention is overdue and is something that Founding Fathers would have wanted.
He was an unsuccessful candidate for reelection in 1814 to the Fourteenth Congress, but served as delegate to the constitutional convention of Maine in 1819.
Marshall was a member of the Kentucky constitutional convention held in Frankfort, Kentucky in 1849.
As the country prepared for independence, in 1975, he served on the legal staff of the Micronesian Constitutional Convention, "where he personally drafted many of the provisions of the FSM Constitution".
Two Carroll sons were prominent members of colonial and early United States society: Daniel Carroll became a politician in the Continental Congress and Maryland Senate, and member of the Constitutional Convention; and John Carroll became the first Roman Catholic bishop in the United States, and founder of Georgetown University.
Estabrook was a delegate to the second Wisconsin State Constitutional Convention in 1848; in 1851, he became a member of the Wisconsin State Assembly.
Jose Nolledo - Member, Philippine Constitutional Commission of 1986; Delegate, Philippine Constitutional Convention of 1971; 3rd placer, 1958 Bar Examinations
Gunning Bedford, Jr. (1747–1812), American lawyer and delegate to the Constitutional Convention of 1787
The boundaries of modern-day Choctaw, Pushmataha and McCurtain counties in Oklahoma are derived largely from the work of the Sequoyah Constitutional Convention.
He was a delegate to the state constitutional convention of 1776 and served first in the North Carolina House of Commons (1779–1783), then in the North Carolina Senate (1784–1786), before being elected as a Democratic-Republican to the 4th and 5th U.S. Congresses (March 4, 1793 - March 3, 1799) and later to the 8th United States Congress (March 4, 1803 - January 11, 1805).
John Francis Mercer (1759–1821), American statesman, delegate to the Constitutional Convention
Born in Truxton, New York, Harris was a delegate to the Louisiana state constitutional convention in 1868.
At the Constitutional Convention, Gómez was one of those who voted in favor of adopting the Platt Amendment.
In 1815, McMinn ran for governor against four other prominent state politicians: Senator Jesse Wharton, Congressman Robert Weakley, former speaker of the state house Robert Foster, and fellow state constitutional convention delegate Thomas Henderson.
Jefferson P. Kidder 1815-1883, delegate to the Vermont Constitutional Convention 1841, Vermont State Senator 1847-1848, Lieutenant Governor of Vermont 1853-1854, delegate to the Democratic National Convention 1856, Minnesota State Representative 1863-1864, Justice of the Dakota Territory Supreme Court 1865-1875 1979-1883, Delegate to Congress from Dakota Territory 1875-1879.
Miracle At Philadelphia: The Story of the Constitutional Convention is a work of historical non-fiction, written by Catherine Drinker Bowen and originally published in 1966.
After the American Civil War, he was a delegate to the 1865 North Carolina Constitutional Convention, and, upon the readmission to North Carolina to the union, he was elected as a Conservative to the 40th United States Congress and served from July 13, 1868 to March 3, 1869.
A bipartisan NT Legislative Assembly Committee, chaired by former Chief Minister Stephen Hatton, had proposed a draft Constitution and that it should be debated at an elected Constitutional Convention.
In the absence of Governor Jackson, who had fled to the southern part of the state with the Guardsmen, the State Constitutional Convention called itself into session, declared the office of Governor vacant, and appointed Hamilton Gamble, former state Chief Justice, as Governor of the Provisional Government of Missouri.
Drew's uncle, Thomas Stevenson Drew, the governor of Arkansas from 1844 to 1849, had also been a delegate to that state's 1836 constitutional convention.
In 1970, Lim was elected to the 1971 constitutional convention.
Hays was elected as a Democrat to the 27th United States Congress, serving from 1841 to 1843, and made an unsuccessful bid for reelection in 1842; however, he later served as a delegate to the State constitutional convention in 1850.
When representatives from Indian Territory joined the Oklahoma State Constitutional Convention in Guthrie the next year, they brought their experience with them.
The dam was named for Adam T. Bower, Chief Clerk of the Pennsylvania House of Representatives from 1967–68 and Director of Services during the Pennsylvania Constitutional Convention of 1967-68, by Act 2001-5 of the Pennsylvania General Assembly.
He was an unsuccessful Republican candidate for Governor in 1880, a delegate to the State constitutional convention in 1885, and was appointed United States surgeon at Port Townsend, Washington, in 1889.
Durant also served as a sergeant-at-arms at the 1906 Oklahoma constitutional convention and was the sponsor of a bill that created Southeastern Oklahoma State University.
At one point, Constitutional Convention delegate James Wilson and Pennsylvania Chief Justice Thomas McKean disputed one of Findley's statements about jury trials in Sweden; Findley returned two days later with William Blackstone's Commentaries on the Laws of England and demonstrated that his reference had been correct.
Briscoe Baldwin (1789–1852), Virginia Delegate and member of the Constitutional Convention