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- DictionaryCon·ven·tion/kənˈven(t)SH(ə)n/
noun
- 1. a way in which something is usually done, especially within a particular area or activity: "the woman who overturned so many conventions of children's literature"
- 2. an agreement between countries covering particular matters, especially one less formal than a treaty: "the convention, signed by the six states bordering on the Black Sea, aims to prevent further pollution"
2 days ago · The Constitution of the United States is the supreme law of the United States. [3] It superseded the Articles of Confederation, the nation's first constitution, on March 4, 1789. Originally including seven articles, the Constitution delineates the national frame and constrains the powers of the federal government.
1 day ago · Democratic National Convention (DNC), quadrennial meeting of the U.S. Democratic Party, at which delegates select the party’s presidential and vice presidential nominees. History. The Democratic Party held its first national convention in May 1832 in Baltimore, Maryland.
5 days ago · Constitution of the United States of America, the fundamental law of the U.S. federal system of government and a landmark document of the Western world. The oldest written national constitution in use, the Constitution defines the principal organs of government and their jurisdictions and the basic rights of citizens.
- The Editors of Encyclopaedia Britannica
3 days ago · United States portal. Law portal. Politics portal. v. t. e. The Constitutional Convention took place in Philadelphia from May 25 to September 17, 1787. [1] Although the convention was intended to revise the league of states and first system of government under the Articles of Confederation, [2] the intention from the outset of many of its ...
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5 days ago · Geneva Conventions, a series of international treaties concluded in Geneva between 1864 and 1949 for the purpose of ameliorating the effects of war on soldiers and civilians. Two additional protocols to the 1949 agreement were approved in 1977.
- Malcolm Shaw
- The Geneva Conventions are a series of international treaties concluded in Geneva between 1864 and 1949. Two additional protocols to the 1949 agree...
- The development of the Geneva Conventions was closely associated with the Red Cross, whose founder, Henri Dunant, initiated international negotiati...
- The third of the Geneva Conventions, the Convention Relating to the Treatment of Prisoners of War (1929), required that belligerents treat prisoner...
- More than 180 states have become parties to the Geneva Conventions of 1949.
1 day ago · The Vienna Convention on the Law of Treaties defines a ‘treaty’ as ‘an international agreement concluded between States in written form and governed by international law, whether embodied in a single instrument or in two or more related instruments and whatever its particular designation’ (Article 2 (1) (a)).
4 days ago · t. e. The National Convention (French: Convention nationale) was the constituent assembly of the Kingdom of France for one day and the French First Republic for its first three years during the French Revolution, following the two-year National Constituent Assembly and the one-year Legislative Assembly.
