Following the 1831 Nat Turner slave rebellion, a state convention was called to pass a new constitution, including provisions to disfranchise free people of color.

Some countries like the United Kingdom have no entrenched document setting out fundamental rights ; in those jurisdictions the constitution is composed of statute, case law and convention.

Previously, the Canadian federal constitution could be amended by solitary act of the Canadian or British parliaments, by formal or informal agreement between the federal and provincial governments, or even simply by adoption as ordinary custom of an oral convention or unwritten tradition that was perceived to be the best way to do something.

A constitutional convention produced an electoral law and draft constitution.

Madison was crucial in persuading George Washington to attend the convention, since he knew how important the president would be to the adoption of a constitution.

Though the Virginia Plan was an outline rather than a draft of a possible constitution, and though it was extensively changed during the debate ( especially by John Rutledge and James Wilson in the Committee of Detail ), its use at the convention led many to call Madison the " Father of the Constitution ".

The ultimate question before the convention, Wood notes, was not how to design a government but whether the states should remain sovereign, whether sovereignty should be transferred to the national government, or whether the constitution should settle somewhere in between.

When the Virginia convention began, the constitution had not yet been ratified by the required nine states.

Without Virginia, a new convention might have been held and a new constitution written in a much more polarized atmosphere, since the constitution did not specify what would happen if it was only partially ratified.

His role at the convention was likely critical to Virginia's ratification, and thus to the success of the constitution generally.

Madison pointed out that a limited government would be created, and that the powers delegated ‘ to the federal government are few and defined .” Madison persuaded prominent figures such as George Mason and Edmund Randolph, who had refused to endorse the constitution at the convention, to change their position and support it at the ratifying convention.

Some anti-federalists continued to fight the issue after the constitution had been ratified, and threatened the entire nation with another constitutional convention.

Congress was extremely busy with setting up the new government, most wanted to wait for the system to show its defects before amending the constitution, and the anti-federalist movements ( which had demanded a new convention ) had died out quickly once the constitution was ratified.

Currently, people all over the country are holding peaceful rallies within the bounds of the law to welcome the successful conclusion of the national convention, which has laid down the fundamental principles for a new constitution, and to demonstrate their aversion to recent provocative demonstrations.

It had been expected by the constitutional convention, which prepared the draft constitution, and by Australia, the outgoing metropolitan power, that Papua New Guinea would choose not to retain its link with the Commonwealth realms monarchy.

In 1950, the U. S. Congress gave Puerto Ricans the right to organize a constitutional convention, contingent on the results of a referendum, where the electorate would determine if they wished to organize their own government pursuant to a constitution of their own choosing.

The office is not established by any constitution or law but exists only as per long-established convention, which stipulates that the monarch must appoint as prime minister the person most likely to command the confidence of the House of Commons ; this individual is typically the leader of the political party or coalition of parties that holds the largest number of seats in that chamber.

The Premiership is still largely a convention of the constitution ; its legal authority is derived primarily from the fact that the Prime Minister is also First Lord of the Treasury.

Pitt's 19 year ministry followed by Lord Liverpool's 15, led the Tory Party to accept the office of Prime Minister as a convention of the constitution.

Under their long, consistent leadership, Cabinet government became a convention of the constitution.

Informally recognised for over a century as a convention of the constitution, the position of Leader of the Opposition was given statutory recognition in 1937 by the Ministers of the Crown Act.

In recognition of his contribution to the creation of modern electrical science, an international convention signed in 1881 established the ampere as a standard unit of electrical measurement, along with the coulomb, volt, ohm, and watt, which are named, respectively, after Ampère ’ s contemporaries Charles-Augustin de Coulomb of France, Alessandro Volta of Italy, Georg Ohm of Germany, and James Watt of Scotland.

By modern convention, enclosures are numbered from the centre outwards.

The modern Philcon convention claims descent from this event.

This convention is more relaxed in modern age and now it is acceptable among friends to use the given name, but use of the family name is still common.

Through centuries of international convention, this has become the dominant rule to identifying an emperor in the modern era.

( By modern convention, the sequence begins with F < sub > 0 </ sub > = 0.

True granite according to modern petrologic convention contains both plagioclase and alkali feldspars.

The two L's do not seem to have specifically represented either name, and the order Ludwik Lazar is a modern convention.

A modern longbow's draw is typically or less, and by modern convention measured at.

However, by the time Scotland and England joined under a single parliament, English had lost the sound, so the Scots convention of using CH remained, hence the modern Scottish English loch.

The Premier is appointed by the Governor of New South Wales, and by modern convention holds office by virtue of his or her ability to command the support of a majority of members of the lower house of Parliament, the Legislative Assembly.

Historians and archeologists dismiss this modern theory as Gods and goddesses with mythical allegories were usually portrayed, but could this remarkable vase have broken convention, and shown realism in portraiture, known solely on coins of the period, before it, in turn, was broken?

The transition of the office to its modern stature occurred primarily as a result of Franklin Roosevelt's 1940 nomination, when he captured the ability to nominate his running mate instead of leaving the nomination to the convention.

Bott states that the author of the poem was evidently unaware that this contraction of " and " is not an archaic, but a modern convention.

However, most modern algebraic geometry texts starting with Alexander Grothendieck's foundational EGA use the convention in this article .< ref > A notable exception to modern algebraic geometry texts following the conventions of this article is Commutative algebra with a view toward algebraic geometry / David Eisenbud ( 1995 ), which uses " h < sub > A </ sub >" to mean the covariant hom-functor.

This is a modern convention, however.

One advantage of this convention is in the use of modular arithmetic as implemented in modern computers.

Most classic translations, including both Douglas and Dryden, employed a rhyme scheme, a very non-Roman convention that is not usually followed in modern versions.

The sound, also not native to the language, often shifted to, as in serbisu " work " from Portuguese serviço ( also note that a modern INL convention promotes the use of serbisu for " work " and servisu for " service ").

This site is recognised by modern convention as the centre of London for the purpose of indicating distances by road in favour of other previous measurement points ( such as St Paul's Cathedral which remains as the root of the English and Welsh part of the Great Britain road numbering scheme ).

The modern convention of moving the Olympic flame via a relay system from Greece to the Olympic venue began in 1936.

The presence of the fourth wall is an established convention of modern realistic theatre, which has led some artists to draw direct attention to it for dramatic or comedic effect when this boundary is " broken ", for example by an actor onstage speaking to the audience directly.