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- adjective Before a
convention (meeting or gathering).
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Examples
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Thanks to the advanced partisan politics of New York, the results had none of the ambiguity so pronounced in preconvention Massachusetts and even in Virginia.
Ratification Pauline Maier 2010
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The preconvention delegate count was probably the work of George Nicholas and a few other leading Virginia Federalists.
Ratification Pauline Maier 2010
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Thanks to the advanced partisan politics of New York, the results had none of the ambiguity so pronounced in preconvention Massachusetts and even in Virginia.
Ratification Pauline Maier 2010
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Whether or not delegates were so tightly bound by their constituents and the record is by no means clear, they acted as if they were, holding firmly to their preconvention positions.
Ratification Pauline Maier 2010
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Whether or not delegates were so tightly bound by their constituents and the record is by no means clear, they acted as if they were, holding firmly to their preconvention positions.
Ratification Pauline Maier 2010
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The preconvention delegate count was probably the work of George Nicholas and a few other leading Virginia Federalists.
Ratification Pauline Maier 2010
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Whether or not delegates were so tightly bound by their constituents and the record is by no means clear, they acted as if they were, holding firmly to their preconvention positions.
Ratification Pauline Maier 2010
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Eisenhower sounded out Bliss about a preconvention endorsement.
Going Home to Glory David Eisenhower 2010
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Thanks to the advanced partisan politics of New York, the results had none of the ambiguity so pronounced in preconvention Massachusetts and even in Virginia.
Ratification Pauline Maier 2010
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The preconvention delegate count was probably the work of George Nicholas and a few other leading Virginia Federalists.
Ratification Pauline Maier 2010
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