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...James A. Kehl Copyright © 1973 by Duke University Press 1973 The Delegate Convention: Agent of the Democratic Process James A. Kehl I When in doubt, punt is an important football cue; it is intended to bring at least temporary relief from a potentially dangerous sit­ uation. In the process...

... the delegates won by him in the primaries. After Humphrey s nomination, Senator McGovern said he concluded that we ought to scrap the whole convention system and go entirely over to the more dem­ ocratic system of primary elections in every state and that, moreover, he was not about to launch a fourth party...

... convention to choose delegates. The National Democratic movement was thus definitely in­ augurated, a movement which Orr on the one side and Rhett \\ National Democrats inSouth Carolina, 1852 to 1860 373 on the other saw with equal clearness spelled the doom of the old Carolina and a revolution in state...

... in their own states and section represented by John Marshall and the Pinckneys. Group alliances like these, which cut across state bound­ aries, made possible the Constitution and the development of a na­ tional life under the Constitution. In the Congress of the United States, state delegations did not vote...

... for the presidency. I tried to get him to run against me this year, but he won t. 8 Battle lines were drawn. Preconvention activity included let­ ters to staff and membership, then busy electing delegates from the local unions to the biennial convention. Baldanzi started the chain with his letter of April 14, 1950...

... of attendance. Richmond Enquirer, April 24: Notice to Delegates to the Educational Convention at Columbia, S. C., April 28, 1863. The presidents of the following railroads have kindly consented to give the delegates attending the convention free tickets both ways, viz.: The Petersburg and Weldon Railroad...

... signer. And he was the only signer to place his address on the document. Previously, on July 2, delegates from the thirteen American colonies voted that the course of human events had compelled them to declare themselves free and independent. The document had been laboriously engrossed on parchment...

... of the sixty newspapers published in the ten slave-holding states at that time, not more than fifteen gave it active support.* Further, the lack of regularity in the election of the delegates in the different states does not give one a very high impression of the convention. It lacked the prestige of state...

... moderate compromise impossible. No one knew what the Populists might finally do. The Populist convention that opened on July 22, consisted of almost 1,400 hot, confused delegates. Palmetto fans agitated the still air, and audibility of the speakers on the platform was so poor that a big-voiced delegate...

... by State law has been made in the States of California, Illinois, New Jersey, New York, Indiana, Missouri, and Maryland. Between 1895 and 1899, California enacted three laws which provided that the primaries of all parties for the election of delegates to conventions within a limited area should be held...

... of the Second Military District of the Southern States, com­ posed of North Carolina and South Carolina. On September 5, Sickles was succeeded by Major General E. R. Canby, who ordered the election of delegates to a constitutional con­ vention. The results of the election, which was held No­ vember 19 and 20...

... assemblage that the commercial interests of the South have yet called together, and that its action, as developed by its proceedings and the speeches of its delegates, will be practical, liberal, and progressive. . . . The province of the approaching convention, as we understand 1 For the genesis...

... to deal with both pre- Con Con matters such as delegate apportionment and selection, and the convention unknowns detailed above. Congress should attend to these questions whether the current drive for a balanced budget amendment succeeds or not since other issues have a potential for generat­ ing drives...

... impor­ tance and interest takes precedence of either the Declaration of May 20 or the Resolutions of May 31, viz., the adoption by the Provincial Congress, April 12,1776, of the resolution authorizing the delegates from North Carolina in the Continental Congress to vote for a Declaration of Independence...

... question. Though the United States government might negotiate such an agreement with Ireland in turmoil, the Senate would never accept it. The fears of the delegates to the Imperial Conference may have been exaggerated, but in the determination of policy men are Creation of the Irish Free State 569 guided...

... everywhere. I As early as September 3, 1780, Alexander Hamilton pro­ posed the calling of a general convention of all the states to give Congress adequate powers to meet the public exigencies.*1 The delegates to the convention should be vested with plenipo­ tentiary powers to conclude finally upon a general...

... make any act done by them or con­ sent given in behalf of this province, obligatory in honor upon every inhabitant thereof who is not an alien to his country s good; levied the sum of twenty pounds proclamation money upon each county to defray the expenses of the said delegates; provided...

... be again adjusted, wherein the same rule of equality in the representa­ tion shall be observed. 4 Again, it was recommended that in apportionment there should be one representative for every thirty thousand inhabitants, and in determining questions in Congress each delegate shall have one voice. 5...

... in Paris in 1789. The others remained and took a prominent part in the activities of the Amis des Noirs. Some of them were wealthy and educated. They had come to France in 1789 to contend for places as representatives of Santo Domingo in the Estates General. But the white delegates for the colony would...

... involved. No doubt the delegation from the United States failed to achieve all of its objectives, but good faith demands open-minded discussion, adjustment, and compromise when necessary; and the fact that Hull, Welles, and their asso­ ciates failed to accomplish all that they had hoped may or may...