Additionally, events ( including the main youth activities ) take place around Keswick chiefly in the convention's other venue, its own Rawnsley Centre, but also in local churches and meeting halls.

The convention's offices are located in Dallas, Texas, though convention staff are located across the state.

Along with Isabella Beecher Hooker, Stone, Stanton and Anthony, the " triumvirate " of women's suffrage, were called away from the convention's opening hours by an unexpected woman suffrage hearing before the United States House Committee on the Judiciary.

An unlimited constitutional convention is called to revise an existing constitution to the extent that it deems to be proper, whereas a limited constitutional convention is restricted to revising only the areas of the current constitution named in the convention's call, the legal mandate establishing the convention.

Barr provided the full color wrap around dust jacket for the convention's hardcover program book.

He threw his support behind former Ontario Premier Bob Rae during the convention's " speech night ", only moments after the final speech from Michael Ignatieff.

The convention's theme was " The Con You Can't Refuse ", a play on the famous line " an offer you can't refuse " from The Godfather.

" Last, due to the convention's nature, there is no such term as " failure " which can be applied.

The convention's proposals were presented in a referendum in Indian Territory, in which they were overwhelmingly endorsed.

The organizers of the convention may designate one of these speeches as the keynote address, one which above all others is stated to underscore the convention's themes or political goals.

The student union building, which was completed the same day the convention opened, was used for the convention's sessions.

The convention agreed on a framework for consolidation of the eight roads ( as well as two " paper " roads, which had not yet been built but were planned ), and Corning took the convention's application to the state Legislature.

From 2003 to 2009 and in 2011 the convention included the anime convention Animecon, which has boosted the convention's attendance and public visibility significantly.

This convention created the International Pacific Salmon Fisheries Commission ( IPSFC ), which was to carry out the convention's mandate and conduct an eight-year study of pacific salmon.

During the conference — which continued till Friday morning — over 400 people attended uniting under the banner of " All One in Christ Jesus "— which is still the convention's watchword.

It also marked the return after two years in New Jersey to the convention's long time venue at the Hilton Rye Town, referred to by the fans as " The Escher Hilton " due to its construction which includes the infamous " Transdimensional Warp Corridor " that allows the attendees to walk from the fourth floor to the function areas on the seventh floor without needing to use any stairs or elevators.

He and James Randi delivered a lecture entitled Skepticism, which related directly with the convention's theme of The Democratization of Information: Power, Peril, and Promise.

A Business Meeting at which all members of Westercon may propose, debate, and vote upon changes to the convention's bylaws is usually on the second day of the convention, and, if necessary, also on the third day to deal with issues not resolved at the first meeting.

Although the convention's agenda largely mirrored that of the Convention of 1832, delegates also agreed to pursue independent statehood for the province, which was at the time part of the state of Coahuila y Tejas.

The convention's desire for speedy drafting and Shallus ' convenience to the convention's meeting may have influenced his choice as engrosser.

( The idea originated with guest of honor Michael Sheard, who stated during closing ceremonies that he enjoyed the convention so much he wished it went on for five days ; this request was technically fulfilled in 2008 by holding the convention's last official panel at 12: 01 on Monday morning.

Wilson attempted to involve the SNP in the Scottish Constitutional Convention but due to the convention's unwillingness to contemplate discussions about Scottish independence as a constitutional option the SNP did not get involved.

Like many other delegates, Broom was unable to attend the sessions of the short meeting, but he likely sympathized with the convention's call for political reforms.

While this reduced their potential delegate count going into the Democratic National Convention, each of these three candidates hoped that the other leading contenders would stumble in the primaries, thus causing the convention's delegates to choose him as a " compromise " candidate acceptable to all factions of the party.

Like the other favorite son candidates, Underwood resisted efforts to remove the convention's two-thirds rule.

The Freedom Democrats efforts drew national attention to the plight of African-Americans in Mississippi, and represented a challenge to President Lyndon B. Johnson, who was seeking the Democratic Party's nomination for reelection ; their success would mean that other Southern delegations, who were already leaning toward Republican challenger Barry Goldwater, would publicly break from the convention's decision to nominate Johnson — meaning in turn that he would almost certainly lose those states ' electoral votes in the election.

( Sites in Australia would be eligible as well if either Australia or the USA were to annex the other, as a consequence of a whimsical provision added to the convention's bylaws in 1998 at the suggestion of Down Under Fan Fund delegate Terry Frost.

The convention's governing body is the Conference of the Parties ( COP ), consisting of all governments ( and regional economic integration organizations ) that have ratified the treaty.

Van Buren won a simple majority on the convention's first ballot but did not attain the two-thirds supermajority required for nomination.

During the Civil War, the people of western Virginia rejected the state convention's decision to secede from the Union.

Soon the Democrats and Whigs recognized the convention's value in building a party, and held their own conventions.

The DNC's action could be reversed, but not until the convention's credentials committee reported.

The state government in Nashville rejected the convention's request, however, and East Tennessee was occupied by Confederate forces shortly thereafter.

At the convention's keynote address, Farrakhan announced his attempt to restore the Nation of Islam under Elijah Muhammad's teachings.

Masseria and Salvatore Maranzano were not invited because their Old World ideas ran counter to the convention's goals.

EPIC urged the Senate to oppose ratification because of the convention's sweeping expansion of law enforcement authority, the lack of legal safeguards, and the impact on U. S. Constitutional rights.

Another candidate, Edson town councillor John Scott, had withdrawn on the convention's first day.

C. H. Douglas proved more evasive than Reid had anticipated in evaluating the Aberhart version of social credit. The threat from within apparently defeated, Reid and his government turned their attention to the threat from without: the convention's repudiation had convinced Aberhart that his Social Credit League must run candidates in the next election.

Initially the Scottish National Party ( SNP ) participated, but the then party leader Gordon Wilson, along with Jim Sillars, decided to withdraw the SNP from participation owing to the convention's unwillingness to discuss Scottish independence as a constitutional option.

" Affiliation " is a formal relationship that involves funding through the convention's budget and representation on the affiliated entity's board.

At the 1941 Convention, Theta Tau began its tradition of honoring a student chapter delegate as the convention's " Outstanding Delegate.