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brokered convention
a party convention in which many delegates are pledged to favorite sons who use their blocs of votes to bargain with leading candidates who lack a majority of delegate support. -
open convention
a party convention at which delegates are free to vote for the candidate of their choice. -
constitutional convention
the convention in Philadelphia (1787) of representatives from each of the former Colonies, except Rhode Island, at which the Constitution of the United States was framed. -
national convention
French History. the legislature of France 1792–95. -
seneca falls convention
a women's rights convention held at Seneca Falls, New York, in 1848, organized by Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Lucretia Mott. -
topos
a convention or motif, especially in a literary work; a rhetorical convention.