Retiring to his beloved Mount Vernon, he returned to preside over the Federal Convention, and was the only man in history to be unanimously elected President.

Of the 175 parties to the Convention, only Afghanistan, Haiti, and the United States have signed the Convention but not yet ratified it.

( c ) That it has accorded the insurgents recognition as belligerents for the purposes only of the present Convention ; or

The 1907 Anglo-Russian Entente ( the Convention of St. Petersburg ) not only divided the region into separate areas of Russian and British influence but also established foundations for Afghan neutrality.

The European Convention is still the only international human rights agreement providing such a high degree of individual protection.

Signatory states to the Convention can only derogate from the rights contained in Article 2 for deaths which result from lawful acts of war.

At the same time the article's protection is limited in that it only prohibits discrimination with respect to rights under the Convention.

In 1848, Douglass was the only African American to attend the first women's rights convention, the Seneca Falls Convention.

In those Berne Convention countries who have implemented only the minimum copyright period, copyright expires 50 years after the author's death.

According to Lemley, it was only at this point that the term really began to be used in the United States ( which had not been a party to the Berne Convention ), and it did not enter popular usage until passage of the Bayh-Dole Act in 1980.

The United States is the only major maritime power that has not ratified the Convention ( see United States non-ratification of the UNCLOS ), with one of the main anti-ratification arguments being a charge that the ISA is flawed or unnecessary.

" Hitherto Monk had continued to make solemn protestations of his affection and fidelity to the Commonwealth interest, against a King and House of Lords ; but the new militia being settled, and a Convention, calling themselves a Parliament and fit for his purpose, being met at Westminster, he sent to such lords as had sat with the Parliament till 1648, to return to the place where they used to sit, which they did, upon assurance from him, that no others should be permitted to sit with them ; which promise he also broke, and let in not only such as had deserted to Oxford, but the late created lords.

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.

The ICJ held that the Vienna Convention on Consular Relations of 24 April 1963 ( Vienna Convention ) granted rights to individuals on the basis of its plain meaning, and that domestic laws could not limit the rights of the accused under the convention, but only specify the means by which those rights were to be exercised.

The court was at pains to point out that it was not passing judgment on the doctrine itself, but only its application to cases involving the Vienna Convention.

::( c ) Article 5 of the European Convention on Human Rights, imported into English law by the Human Rights Act 1998 provides that a person of unsound mind may only be detained where proper account of objective medical expertise has been taken.

In regards to laying mines, "... the laying of mines in the waters of another State without any warning or notification is not only an unlawful act but also a breach of the principles of humanitarian law underlying the Hague Convention No. VIII of 1907.

Convention has initial board position such that the disks with dark side up are to the northeast and southwest ( from both players ' perspectives ), though this is only marginally meaningful to play ( Where opening memorization is an issue, some players may benefit from consistency on this ).

Articles 46 – 53 of the Vienna Convention on the Law of Treaties set out the only ways that treaties can be invalidated — considered unenforceable and void under international law.

The Convention on the Turkish Straits lasted only thirteen years and was replaced with the Montreux Convention Regarding the Regime of the Turkish Straits in 1936.

Trusts are widely used internationally, especially in countries within the English law sphere of influence, and whilst most civil law jurisdictions do not generally contain the concept of a trust within their legal systems, they do recognise the concept under the Hague Convention on the Law Applicable to Trusts and on their Recognition ( partly only the extent that they are parties thereto ).

During the Constitutional Convention, a proposal was made for the Supreme Court to be the only federal court, having both original jurisdiction and appellate jurisdiction.

The Convention on Offenses and Certain Other Acts Committed on Board Aircraft (" Tokyo Convention ") is a multilateral convention, done at Tokyo between 20 August and 14 September 1963, coming into force on 4 December 1963, and is applicable to offenses against penal law and to any acts jeopardizing the safety of persons or property on board civilian aircraft while in-flight and engaged in international air navigation.

Chronologically the first of the passed convention in the Tokyo-Hague-Montreal system was the Tokyo Convention.

A general rule agreed upon the Tokyo Convention is that the general penalty jurisdiction towards the offenders committing the crimes included in this convention is performed by the country where the aircraft is registered.

In a situation, when he has justification to assume, that a given person committed or is attempting to commit an act regulated by the convention, he can apply towards that person “ reasonable measures ” including restraint, under a condition that they do not break the rules enumerated in Article 6, paragraph 1 of the Tokyo Convention.

The number of ratification for the entry-into force of the Ban Amendment is under debate: Amendments to the convention enter into force after ratification of " three-fourths of the Parties who accepted them " 17. 5 ; so far, the Parties of the Basel Convention could not yet agree whether this would be three fourth of the Parties that were Party to the Basel Convention when the Ban was adopted, or three fourth of the current Parties of the ConventionReport of COP 9 of the Basel Convention.

For a work to be considered pirated, its illegitimate use must have occurred in a nation that has domestic copyright laws and / or adheres to a bilateral treaty or established international convention such as the Berne Convention or WIPO Copyright Treaty.

* Convention Centre Dublin-A convention centre on the Dublin Docklands.

Two years later, the city hosted the tumultuous 1968 Democratic National Convention, which featured physical confrontations both inside and outside the convention hall, including full-scale riots, or in some cases police riots, in city streets.

Vienna Convention on the Law of Treaties, the State Department has taken the position that the Vienna convention represents established law.

The term convention is also used in international law to refer to certain formal statements of principle such as the Convention on the Rights of the Child.

All Council of Europe member states are party to the Convention and new members are expected to ratify the convention at the earliest opportunity.

The Convention has several protocols, which amend the convention framework.

This, in part, explains the constant references to values and principles that are " necessary in a democratic society " throughout the Convention, despite the fact that such principles are not in any way defined within the convention itself.

In 1968, Gygax rented Lake Geneva's vine-covered Horticultural Hall for to hold the first Lake Geneva Convention, also known as the Gen Con gaming convention for short.

* International Convention Centre, any of several convention centers

Under some conventions – e. g. the European Convention on Human Rights – individuals or states are permitted, subject to certain conditions, to take individual cases to the enforcement mechanisms ; under most, however ( e. g. the UN conventions ), individual access is contingent on the acceptance of that right by the relevant state party, either by a declaration at the time of ratification or accession, or through ratification of or accession to an optional protocol to the convention.

He addressed the convention on July 15 at the 1980 Republican National Convention in Detroit, Michigan and on August 21 at the 1984 Republican National Convention in Dallas, Texas.

* February 18 – A jury finds the Chicago Seven defendants not guilty of conspiring to incite a riot, in charges stemming from the violence at the 1968 Democratic National Convention.

Article 6 of the European Convention on Human Rights protects the right to a fair trial ; an ' implied ' right stemming from this is that of ' equality of arms ' – the idea that hearings should be adversarial and both parties should have access to the same evidence and witnesses.

Indicted by US authorities in August 1947 for violations of the 1907 Hague Convention stemming from his leadership of Operation Greif, a false flag operation in which German troops were infiltrated behind Allied lines in the Ardennes forest while wearing British and US Army uniforms and using captured vehicles.