constitutional convention
Founding document gathering
A constitutional convention is a formal assembly convened to draft or revise a constitution.
The term most often refers to the 1787 Philadelphia convention that produced the U.S.
Constitution: The Founders debated slavery at the Constitutional Convention.
More broadly, any gathering empowered to establish or amend fundamental law: Voters approved a ballot measure calling for a constitutional convention.
- We the PeopleOpening of the Constitution
- charterFounding organizational document
- bill of rightsDocument listing protected liberties
- ratificationFormal approval by authority
- delegateEntrust authority to another
amendments · deliberation · smoke-filled rooms · representative · Federalist Papers · amendment process · senator · checks and balances · voting procedures · fundamental law · federal structure · separation of powers · congressperson · state legislatures · three-fifths compromise · quorum · framers · Great Compromise
- US HistoryAmerican Revolution, US history, Civil War, George Washington, Abraham Lincoln
- official gatheringsparliament, senate, council, legislature, assembly
- constitutional lawBill of Rights, First Amendment, Second Amendment, Fourth Amendment, Fifth Amendment
- ConstitutionBill of Rights, preamble, articles, Article I, First Amendment
- constitutionsbill of rights, clause, clauses, preamble, provisions
- founding eventssigning, declaration, charter, incorporation, inauguration
constitutional conventionlegislature
Lawmaking governmental branch
administrative agency · city council · executive branch · bureaucracy · judiciary
constitutional conventionstatus quo
Existing condition of affairs
constitutional conventioncoup d'état
Violent government seizure
military junta · dictatorship · putsch · royal charter · revolution
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