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	Political Convention - MSN Encarta
		Political Convention, in the United States, assembly or convention of delegates, representing the membership of a political party, that meets to nominate candidates for elective public office.
		At the opening of a national convention, the members of important committees, such as the credentials, rules, and platform committees, are appointed, and a temporary convention chairperson is elected.
		The permanent chairperson of the convention is then elected, and he or she presides during the adoption of the party platform and the balloting on presidential and vice-presidential candidates.
	encarta.msn.com /encyclopedia_761572813/Political_Convention.html (1133 words)

	Howstuffworks "How Political Conventions Work"
		The political convention is a uniquely American tradition, one that is focused on the political parties that have defined Americans' choices in government for nearly 175 years.
		Political conventions, and the party system they are an integral part of, are not mentioned in the U.S. Constitution.
		Political conventions were one way of doing this: Previously, candidates were nominated in secret caucuses by members of Congress; candidates would now be chosen by delegates who were selected at the state or county level by the party members.
	people.howstuffworks.com /political-convention.htm/printable (2114 words)

	Political convention - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		In politics, a political convention is a meeting of a political party, typically to select party candidates.
		In Canada, a political convention held to choose a party leader is often known as a leadership convention.
		Political Conventions also refer to the Laws that are not written in the Constitution but are common sense to people politically.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Political_convention (173 words)

	4th Convention Draft Political Resolution (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		Political institutions and mechanisms of capitalist control, both nationally and internationally, are being realigned and remolded.
		Political realignments are at various stages of progress in various countries, and they take forms peculiar to each nationâs history and culture.
		Their intellectual development and political activity on that basis are the key to the subjective formation of the new class as a whole.
	www.lrna.org /doc.4/polres.html (3093 words)

	Library & Archives of New Hampshire's Political Tradition (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		Until the introduction of national political conventions in 1831, candidates for President and Vice President of the United States were named by congressional caucus or other methods chosen by the House of Representatives.
		A national political convention is a large meeting made up of people who have been leaders or activists in their political organization.
		Politics is described as the art or science of government, of guiding or influencing government, concerned with winning or gaining control of government.
	www.politicallibrary.org /cards/MiscCardStuff/primary.html (664 words)

	AllPolitics - Democratic National Convention
		The 1968 Democratic Convention, held on August 26-29th, stands as an important event in the nation's political and cultural history.
		The primary cause of the demonstrations and the subsequent riots during the 1968 Chicago convention was opposition to the Vietnam War.
		When the convention was finally over, the Chicago police reported 589 arrests had been made and 119 police and 100 protesters were injured.
	www-cgi.cnn.com /ALLPOLITICS/1996/conventions/chicago/facts/chicago68/index.shtml (2110 words)

	U.N. Deliberations on Draft Convention on the Political Rights of Women
		This convention on political rights of women is not in itself an answer to the problems of modern government.
		The convention is a symbol of the progress women have made in the past 100 years, and a challenge to them to claim and make full use of the political rights they achieve.
		We have been listening with great care to the statements on this convention, because, you remember, the United States indicated in its statement the' we do not believe the convention applies to military service, and asked whether that was the general opinion among the delegates.
	www.udhr.org /history/124.htm (3170 words)

	Political Convention - Search Results - MSN Encarta
		Political Convention - Search Results - MSN Encarta
		Political Convention, in the United States, assembly or convention of delegates, representing the membership of a political party, that meets to...
		Primary Election, preliminary election in which voters select a political party’s candidates for public office.
	encarta.msn.com /Political_Convention.html (120 words)

	National political conventions: short-term spectacle or lasting legacy? Campaigns & Elections - Find Articles (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		National political conventions are historic events that promise to generate economic and tourism benefits to their host communities.
		The scale and scope of the apparatus needed to secure the convention, plan and fund the event, conduct the proceedings and wrap up the thousands of details involved was an undertaking of significant magnitude.
		The convention's cash surplus of about $6 million is slated for donation to a variety of civic causes, pending a final audit by the Federal Election Commission.
	www.findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_m2519/is_5_26/ai_n14710130 (785 words)

	CONVENTION ON POLITICAL ASYLUM
		Political asylum, as an institution of humanitarian character, is not subject to reciprocity.
		When the withdrawal of a diplomatic agent is requested because of the discussions that may have arisen in some case of political asylum, the diplomatic agent shall be replaced by his government, and his withdrawal shall not determine a breach of diplomatic relations between the two States.
		The present Convention shall remain in force indefinitely but may be denounced by means of one year's notice given to the Pan American Union, which shall transmit it to the other signatory governments.
	www.oas.org /juridico/english/treaties/a-37.html (469 words)

	convention - Definitions from Dictionary.com
		Convention usually suggests a meeting of delegates representing political, church, social, or fraternal organizations.
		Conventional "following tradition" is from 1831 (from convention in secondary sense of "agreement"); of weapons, meaning "non-nuclear," it is attested from 1955.
		orthodoxy as a consequence of being conventional [syn: conventionality] [ant: unconventionality]
	dictionary.reference.com /browse/convention (543 words)

	Convention on the Political Rights of Women, 193 U.N.T.S. 135, entered into force July 7, 1954.
		This Convention shall be ratified and the instruments of ratification shall be deposited with the Secretary-General of the United Nations.
		This Convention shall cease to be in force as from the date when the denunciation which reduces the number of Parties to less than six becomes effective.
		This Convention, of which the Chinese, English, French, Russian and Spanish texts shall be equally authentic, shall be deposited in the archives of the United Nations.
	www1.umn.edu /humanrts/instree/e2cprw.htm (610 words)

	SignOnSanDiego.com > News > Metro -- GOP convention's halo tarnished
		The convention is now seen by some auditors and investigators as among a string of events that strained San Diego's tight city finances, leading policy-makers in 1996 to balance the books by paying less into the city pension system than was needed to meet its future obligations to thousands of retirees.
		Wilson was not invited to speak at the convention in retaliation for his support for abortion rights, and then-Massachusetts Gov. William Weld withdrew from a prime-time speaking slot, claiming the Dole campaign sought to censor his abortion-rights views.
		Political fights and embarrassing realities aside – television cameras saw few minorities among the GOP delegates, for example – the images of the city itself provided “advertising that you just can't buy,” Wright said.
	www.signonsandiego.com /news/metro/20060813-9999-1n13conven.html (1548 words)

	Constitutional convention (political custom) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		For example, the constitutional convention that the Prime Minister of the United Kingdom must govern with a majority in Parliament derived from the very unsuccessful attempt of Robert Peel to govern without one in the mid 19th century.
		Constitutional conventions differ from formal constitutional amendments in that they are created over time, and it may be difficult or impossible to identify when a constitutional convention has come into effect or sometimes even what the constitutional conventions are.
		This convention was broken in 1975 by Sir Colin Hannah, the Governor of Queensland, who called for the defeat of the Whitlam Government.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Constitutional_convention_(political_custom) (1639 words)

	Online NewsHour: Convention History
		For instance, a delegate could come to a convention, pledged perhaps to Franklin Pierce, but then perhaps between the time he was made a delegate and the time he came to the convention, he might think perhaps Pierce was not a good idea and change his vote to someone else.
		So the result was that as one approached a political convention for most of the 19th century and for most of the 20th century until the 1960's, part of the drama was the fact that you didn't know ultimately who was going to be the nominee at the end of that convention week.
		And the result of all this was that the convention was a real process and in a way it was a reflection of democracy because you had people from all over the country, from the elite, from the leadership of Congress, from the rank and file, from the grassroots, all getting together.
	www.pbs.org /newshour/convention96/retro/beschloss_history.html (2020 words)

	The Black Commentator - Hip Hop Generation Agenda - More than music and style - Issue 97
		The 3,000 young people who attended the National Hip Hop Political Convention in Newark, New Jersey, June 16-20, were determined to define themselves through a politics of struggle — to begin to redraw the map of the world through the prisms of their own experience.
		The National Hip Hop Political Convention had no deep-pocket sponsors, yet it succeeded on the strength of the organizers’ peer credibility, and the near-universal desire among Black youth to overturn the status quo.
		Electoral politics, the route taken to the exclusion of all others by critical elements of a previous generation’s movement, has demonstrated its hollowness in the absence of year-round, grassroots organizing.
	www.blackcommentator.com /97/97_cover_hh_convention.html (2781 words)

	The Importance of...: Blogging the Political Conventions
		In addition to the commercial aspect, a convention also serves as a celebration for the party loyalists who like to dance the Marcarena en masse and express wild exuberance when their state's nominating votes are read aloud.
		Of course the political parties are trying to manipulate press coverage, but the bloggers aren't the only ones; the mainstream media is the main focus of the manipulation.
		Blogs at conventions might be as dull and un-newsworthy as the mainstream press at a convention, but it would be hard for them to be worse.
	importance.corante.com /archives/004483.html (860 words)

	Hustle and Bustle of Mock Con Mirrors Real Political Convention
		With the convention barely three weeks away, Rhodes and his two executive co-chairs have spent the past two years orchestrating what they hope will be a near replica of the national Democratic convention this summer in its race to oust President George Bush.
		The Mock Convention's spring kick-off and gala ball have been completed, as have lodging arrangements, travel plans and invitations to hundreds of political operatives, commentators and the presidential candidates themselves.
		Given that WandL's Mock Convention has been wrong only once since 1948, Political Chair Michael Denbow and his committee are determined the 2004 event will retain that winning record - despite the huge slate of presidential candidates that even political pundits have been slow to sort through in distinguishing a clear front-runner.
	news.wlu.edu /news/page/normal/683.html (1247 words)

	First hip-hop convention raps on politics \| csmonitor.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		But punctuating the polite proceedings is a blast of catchy hip-hop music, signaling that this is not your parents' political convention.
		Enista stresses that the convention is not so much about aligning the hip-hop community with one political agenda as it is about creating political awareness and directing responsibility to members of the rap and hip-hop music culture.
		Convention organizers are eager to move hip-hop music away not only from any negative connotations it may have but also from the closely aligned genre of "gangsta rap," a music form that openly promotes sexist views, gang violence, and drug use.
	www.csmonitor.com /2004/0622/p02s01-uspo.html (772 words)

	Boston.com / A&E / Music / Rap fans are harnessing their political power to take on the issues they care about
		Enter the National Hip Hop Political Convention, a collective of 20 20- and 30-something activists, students, journalists, and academics formed in March to get the things done it thinks its community needs.
		Convention organizers include Kitwana; rapper Chuck D; Ras Baraka, deputy mayor of Newark; and Billy Wimsatt, founder of the League of Independent Voters.
		Political training will also have to take place in city neighborhoods, since it's what's said after voter registration that inspires the apathetic to vote, says Woodson.
	www.boston.com /ae/music/articles/2003/12/03/rap_fans_are_harnessing_their_political_power_to_take_on_the_issues_they_care_about (1632 words)

	BlackNews.com - National Hip-Hop Political Convention to Train Next Generation of Activists
		Convention programming is designed to educate members of the Hip Hop generation how to earn, demand and work for all three.
		This year's event builds on the success of the first-ever National Hip Hop Political Convention, which was held in 2004.
		While this year's Convention is focused on training leaders, there will be plenty of entertainment: Hip Hop legends X-Clan and Poor Righteous Teachers, along with many of the nation's strongest, most positive independent artists are slated to perform.
	www.blacknews.com /pr/hiphopconvention101.html (622 words)

	Mayor wants '08 political convention
		Gordon said a party convention would help spotlight the city's transformation, which includes an emerging bioscience industry, a new Arizona State University campus and University of Arizona medical and pharmacy colleges.
		A convention would have a significant economic benefit for the Valley and state, he said.
		It would add to the "people traffic" into downtown Phoenix and the Civic Plaza, which by 2008 is expected to jump from a 580,000-square-foot convention center to one with more than 2 million square feet.
	www.azcentral.com /arizonarepublic/local/articles/0818phx-convention18.html (268 words)

	Rules on Political Activities
		Political Contributions: You may make financial contributions to partisan political candidates, parties or organizations, including to campaign committees or party committees, subject to state and federal limitations.
		Running for Office: You may not run for nomination or as a candidate for election to a partisan political office, unless you are running as an independent candidate for a partisan political office on the local level in a designated municipality.
		Recommendations: If you are involved in examining or appointing an applicant for the competitive service, you may not receive or consider a recommendation of the applicant by a Senator or Representative, except as to the character or residence of the applicant.
	www.afsa.org /StateVP/politicalactivity.cfm (1573 words)

	CorpWatch : Corporate Donations to Republican Convention to Reach $160 Million.
		In many respects, the political conventions have become the last bastion of soft-money, the unlimited contributions from special interests that were ostensibly banned by the Federal Election Campaign Act, better known as McCain/Feingold.
		Although political parties are not required to reveal donations before the conventions and some donors have remained secret, New Balance has boasted of its donations of $1 million to Democrats and $500,000 to the Republicans.
		"The conventions are the last bastion of soft-money giving at the federal level." The Center filed a petition with the FEC protesting that the convention host committees were actually soft money conduits for the political parties, but despite the fact that their combined take will be over $250 million the FEC failed to act.
	www.corpwatch.org /article.php?id=11511 (1021 words)

	wcco.com - GOP '08 Convention Marks State's Political Shift
		The Republican National Convention is coming to a state perhaps best known as the political province of Democrats Hubert H. Humphrey Jr., Walter Mondale and Paul Wellstone.
		Political observers said the event will bring unprecedented national media attention and update the nation's image of Minnesota as a Midwestern enclave for Democrats.
		It will be the first national convention in Minnesota since 1892, when the GOP backed President Benjamin Harrison's unsuccessful quest for a second term.
	wcco.com /politics/local_story_270181448.html (890 words)

	Collecting American Political Memorabilia
		But the bulk of the collection was picked up (quite literally) as a result of our involvement in politics: we worked for presidential candidates and coordinated campaigns in Whitman county.
		Then, during the convention, as the candidate field narrowed daily, we made the rounds of "withdrawal" functions and offered to take excess buttons off campaigns' hands.
		All in all, the collection is idiosyncratic, relatively unfocused, and eclectic--just what one might expect from two political junkies who were collecting, not as an investment, but for the sheer fun of it.
	www.wsulibs.wsu.edu /holland/masc/masctour/buttons/exhibit1.htm (553 words)

	National Hip Hop Political Convention Set For June 2004
		The National Hip Hop Political Convention will be a nationwide gathering of socially-conscious individuals to vote on, adopt and endorse a political agenda for the Hip Hop Generation.
		The ultimate goal of The National Hip Hop Political Convention is the empowerment of the Hip Hop Generation through affecting issues and shaping public policies.
		We are activists, artists, educators, workers, and professionals from across the country who have come together to build a political agenda reflective of the needs, interests and experiences of the Hip Hop Generation.
	pub12.ezboard.com /fpoliticalpalacefrm17.showMessage?topicID=543.topic (453 words)

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