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    The Virginia Conventions were assemblies of delegates elected for the purpose of establishing constitutions of fundamental law for the Commonwealth of...
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    The Virginia Ratifying Convention (also historically referred to as the "Virginia Federal Convention") was a convention of 168 delegates from Virginia who...
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    Fifth Virginia Convention was a meeting of the Patriot legislature of Virginia held in Williamsburg from May 6 to July 5, 1776. This Convention declared...
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    reassembled on their own and issued calls for the first of five Virginia Conventions. These conventions were essentially meetings of the House of Burgesses without...
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    Peyton Randolph (category Beverley family of Virginia)
    by the Virginia Conventions and later the House of Delegates in 1776). Randolph also served as the president of the Third Virginia Convention in July...
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    The Virginia Secession Convention of 1861 was called in the state capital of Richmond to determine whether Virginia would secede from the United States...
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  • following Conventions in other historical eras: Virginia Ratifying Convention, convention to reject or ratify the United States Constitution Virginia Constitutional...
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    Francis Lightfoot Lee (category Continental Congressmen from Virginia)
    direction of independence from Britain. Lee was a delegate to the Virginia Conventions and the Continental Congress. He was a signer of the Declaration...
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    of Virginia became a prominent part of the Confederacy when it joined during the American Civil War. As a Southern slave-holding state, Virginia held...
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    The Virginia Constitutional Convention of 1850 was an assembly of elected delegates chosen by the voters to write the fundamental law of Virginia. It...
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    Patrick Henry (category Delegates to the Virginia Ratifying Convention)
    American politician, planter and orator who declared to the Second Virginia Convention (1775): "Give me liberty, or give me death!" A Founding Father, he...
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    Super Conventions or Supercon, is a privately owned company based in Fort Lauderdale, Florida, that organizes comic book and anime conventions in the...
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    National Conventions. These conventions are the presidential nominating conventions of the Democratic Party of the United States. Conventions whose nominees...
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    The 1861 Wheeling Convention was an assembly of Virginia Southern Unionist delegates from the northwestern counties of Virginia, aimed at repealing the...
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    of the Commonwealth of Virginia is the official seal of the Commonwealth of Virginia, a U.S. state. The state flag of Virginia consists of the obverse...
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    The Virginia Constitutional Convention of 1829–1830 was a constitutional convention for the state of Virginia, held in Richmond from October 5, 1829,...
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    Give me liberty or give me death! (category 1775 in the Colony of Virginia)
    from a speech he made to the Second Virginia Convention on March 23, 1775, at St. John's Church in Richmond, Virginia. Henry is credited with having swung...
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    Founding Father Patrick Henry gave his memorable speech at the Second Virginia Convention, closing with the often-quoted demand, "Give me liberty, or give...
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    George Mason (category Delegates to the Virginia Ratifying Convention)
    state conventions, with nine approvals necessary for it to come into force. In practice, opposition by large states such as New York or Virginia would...
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  • slavery, but many of the northwestern counties of Virginia were decidedly pro-Union. At a convention called by the governor and authorized by the legislature...
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    Edmund Randolph (category Delegates to the Virginia Ratifying Convention)
    attorney, and the 7th Governor of Virginia. As a delegate from Virginia, he attended the Constitutional Convention and helped to create the national constitution...
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    redistricting commission with judicial oversight. Virginia portal Law of Virginia Virginia Conventions Notes Lieberman, Jethro (1987). The Enduring Constitution:...
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    Campaign in Virginia) Virginia Conventions Alexandria Gazette, vol. 65, No.68 and 71, 21 and 24 March 1864 @ Virginia Chronicle, Library of Virginia and "Virginia...
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    of Rights, written by George Mason and adopted unanimously by the Virginia Convention of Delegates on June 12, 1776, speaks of happiness in the context...
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    is an independent city in the southwestern part of the Commonwealth of Virginia. As of the 2020 census, the population was 6,720. The Bureau of Economic...
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    February 23, 2017. "2016 Presidential Primaries, Caucuses, and Conventions : Virginia Republican". The Green Papers. Retrieved May 13, 2021. "Libertarian...
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    The Virginia Constitutional Convention of 1868, was an assembly of delegates elected by the voters to establish the fundamental law of Virginia following...
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  • The Virginia Beach Convention Center is a large convention center located in Virginia Beach, Virginia. It opened in 2005, and is the largest building...
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    and Edmund Randolph. The Virginia Plan was notable for its role in setting the overall agenda for debate in the Convention and, in particular, for setting...
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    held another convention to bring some provisions of its constitution into line with the Constitution of the United States. Virginia Conventions have included...
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