Grayson County is also the home of other fiddlers ' conventions and old time and bluegrass festivals such as the Grayson County Fiddlers Convention, Fries Fiddlers Convention, and the Wayne C. Henderson Guitar Festival.

Grayson continued to believe that the Philadelphia Convention had struck precisely the wrong balance.

After the initial adoption of the Convention, some LDCs and environmental organizations argued that it did not go far enough.

In opposition to the German submissions, the United States argued that the Vienna Convention did not grant rights to individuals, only to states ; that the convention was meant to be exercised subject to the laws of each state party, which in the case of the United States meant subject to the doctrine of procedural default ; and that Germany was seeking to turn the ICJ into an international court of criminal appeal.

Indigenous peoples have argued, through various international forums such as the United Nations Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues and the Convention on Biological Diversity, that there are four pillars of sustainable development, the fourth being cultural.

New Zealand ratified the Convention 6 April 1993 with reservations concerning the right to distinguish between persons according to the nature of their authority to be in New Zealand, the need for legislative action on economic exploitation-which it argued was adequately protected by existing law, and the provisions for the separation of juvenile offenders from adult offenders.

For instance, it is regularly argued that Taiwan satisfies the requirements of statehood at international law as stated in the Montevideo Convention.

Berger realised that this would contravene the Geneva Convention and argued that there was not enough barbed wire-as a result this plan was not implemented.

Academics have argued that Coke's work in Bonham's Case forms the basis of judicial review and the declaration of legislation as unconstitutional in the United States ; another calls this " one of the most enduring myths of American constitutional law and theory, to say nothing of history ", pointing out that at no point during the Constitutional Convention was Bonham's Case referenced.

The Russians argued that this was a violation of the Straits Convention of 1841 and therefore invaded the two principalities.

Writing for the Court majority in Wesberry, Justice Black argued that a reading of the debates of the Constitutional Convention demonstrated conclusively that the Framers had meant, in using the phrase “ by the People ,” to guarantee equality of representation in the election of Members of the House of Representatives.

Justice Harlan further argued that the Convention debates were clear to the effect that Article I, § 4, had vested exclusive control over state districting practices in Congress and that the Court action overrode a congressional decision not to require equally-populated districts.

This was broken controversially in 1909 by the House of Lords, which argued that the Convention was linked to another Convention that the Commons would not introduce a Bill that ' attacked ' peers and their wealth.

The government argued that the position of a cabinet minister as a Judge and Head of the Judiciary was no longer appropriate and would not be upheld by the European Convention on Human Rights.

Alexander Hamilton argued in a long speech before the Constitutional Convention of 1787 that the President of the United States should be an elective monarch, ruling for " good behavior " ( i. e., for life, unless impeached ) and with extensive powers.

As the 1909 Act did not comply with the automatic protection of the Berne Convention, statutory copyright could only be obtained by completing the necessary formalities, i. e. by registering the work with the Registrar of Copyrights in Washington, D. C .. CBS argued that Dr. King had not complied with the statute, and thus, by performing the work, he essentially granted it to the public domain.

Some conservatives argued this would be the easiest model to defeat in a referendum and therefore should be supported at the Convention.

It's currently being argued that if Baltimore does not expand its convention center, the city could " fall off the map as a potential convention choice ," especially since the cities with which Baltimore competes with, Washington D. C. ( recently built and opened the Walter E. Washington Convention Center and has announced plans to open a 1, 175-room Marriott Marquis hotel with 100, 000 SF of convention and meeting space in 2013 ), Philadelphia ( recently opened its newly expanded convention center of over 700, 000 SF of meeting and convention space ), and Nashville ( currently building a 1. 2 million SF convention center and a convention headquarters hotel currently slated to open in 2013 ) has or are in the process of expanding its convention and hotel space.

He argued for a reinstatement of both pledged and superdelegates from the state of Florida to the 2008 Democratic National Convention, with both exercising a half vote at the Convention.

Berger realized that this would contravene the Geneva Convention and argued that there was not enough barbed wire — as a result this plan was not implemented.

The California Constitutional Convention debates of 1849 mentioned the Mormons or Salt Lake a number times along with the North-South conflict over extension of slavery, with advocates of smaller boundaries such as 116 ° west or the crest of the Sierra Nevada arguing that the Mormons were unrepresented at the convention, culturally different, applying for their own territorial government, and that Salt Lake was too far away for a single government to be practical and that Congress would not agree to such a huge state ; while those advocating retention of all of former Mexican Alta California, such as pro-slavery future Senator William M. Gwin, argued these were not real obstacles or could be solved later.

In contrast, some have argued that the Human Rights Act does not give adequate protection to rights because of the ability for the government to derogate from Convention rights under article 15 especially in relation to terrorism legislation.

William F. Allen, the secretary of the General Time Convention, argued that North American railroads should adopt a five zone standard, similar to the one in use today, to avoid government action.

Their case was presented by a Mapam man, Haim Holzman, who argued that the evacuation had no legal or military rationale, and violated the Geneva Convention.

The petition was ignored and a legal challenge by six members of the pre-1934 House of Assembly that argued that the National Convention Act and the Referendum Act were both unconstitutional was quashed when Justice Dunfield ruled that with the reversion of Newfoundland to Crown Colony status in 1934, the British Parliament was free to do as it saw fit.

Each Party to the Convention must designate one or more Management Authorities in charge of administering the licensing system and one or more Scientific Authorities to provide advice about the effects of any proposed trade on the status of the species.

In 1968, the International Convention of Christian Churches ( Disciples of Christ ) adopted the Commission's proposed “ Provisional Design of the Christian Church ( Disciples of Christ ).” Soon the Provisional Design became “ The Design .”

After the third meeting in 1961 at the Wingspread Conference Center in Racine, Wisconsin, a standard proposed primarily by Emmett L. Bennett, Jr. ( 1918 – 2011 ), became known as the Wingspread Convention, which was adopted by a new organization, the Comité International Permanent des Études Mycéniennes ( CIPEM ), affiliated in 1970 by the fifth colloquium with UNESCO.

In August 2008 MK deputy leader, Conan Jenkin, expressed Mebyon Kernow's support for a proposed legal challenge by Cornwall 2000 over the UK Government's exclusion of the Cornish from the Framework Convention for the Protection of National Minorities.

Originally, it was proposed that the Diet of the German Confederation ( in which all the states of Germany were represented ) should determine the fate of the duchies ; but before this scheme could be effected, Bismarck induced Austria to agree to the Gastein Convention.

Some council-member states proposed an additional protocol to the Council of Europe Cybercrime Convention, addressing materials and " acts of racist or xenophobic nature committed through computer networks "; it was negotiated from late 2001 to early 2002, and, on 7 November 2002, the Council of Europe Committee of Ministers adopted the protocol's final text titled Additional Protocol to the Convention on Cyber-crime, Concerning the Criminalisation of Acts of a Racist and Xenophobic Nature Committed through Computer Systems, (" Protocol ").

Subsequently, the Philadelphia Convention proposed in 1787 to grant Congress exclusive power to raise and support a standing army and navy of unlimited size.

The last and only proposed Constitution adopted by the Fifth Constitutional Convention in 2009 was rejected by the U. S. Congress in 2010, which urged the convention to reconvene to address the concerns Congress and the Obama administration have had with the proposed document.

A Congressional resolution disapproving of the proposed constitution and requesting that the Fifth Constitutional Convention reconvene to consider changes to address these issues was signed into law by President Obama on June 30, 2010.

During the Revolution of 1789, city officials had proposed to the Convention to rename Versailles Berceau-de-la-Liberté (" Cradle of Liberty "), but they had to retract their proposal when confronted with the objections of the majority of the population.

Condorcet, who opposed the death penalty but still supported the trial itself, spoke out against the execution of the King during the public vote at the Convention – he proposed to send the king to the galleys.

New Zealand initially expressed interest in joining the proposed Federation of the Australian colonies, attending the 1891 National Australia Convention in Sydney.

The line was again proposed by the Nashville Convention of June 1850.

The Federal Convention sent the proposed Constitution to the Confederation Congress, which at the end of September 1787 submitted it to the states for ratification.

The Convention also made recommendations about a preamble to the Constitution, and a proposed preamble was also put to referendum.

The bi-partisan recommendations of committee supported educational initiatives and holding a series of plebiscites to allow the public to choose which model they preferred, prior to a final draft and referendum, along the lines of plebiscites proposed by John Howard at the 1998 Constitutional Convention.

The Cape Town Principles and Best Practices, adopted by the NGO Working Group on the Convention on the Rights of Children and UNICEF at a symposium on the prevention of recruitment of children into the armed forces and on demobilization and social regeneration of child soldiers in Africa in April 1997, proposed that African Governments should adopt and ratify the Optional protocol on the involvement of children in armed conflict raising the minimum age from 15 to 18, and that African Governments should ratify and implement other pertinent treaties and incorporate them into national law.

The Constitutional Convention in 1787 used the Virginia Plan as the basis for discussions, as the Virginia delegation had proposed it first.

In 1905, the Sequoyah Convention proposed creating two counties from this area.

Their meeting, which came to be known as the Sequoyah Constitutional Convention, established the proposed State of Sequoyah.

This was soon proposed, and in 1907 the Oklahoma Constitutional Convention met in Guthrie, Oklahoma Territory to create the new State of Oklahoma.

During these deliberations it became clear that the work of the Sequoyah Constitutional Convention had been groundbreaking: the Guthrie meeting essentially adopted almost exactly the same boundaries for Pushmataha County, Oklahoma as were proposed earlier for Sequoyah, again identifying Antlers as county seat.

The Virginia Plan, issued at the outset of the Philadelphia Convention of 1787, proposed to pair recall with rotation in office and to apply these dual principles to the lower house of the national legislature.