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Journal of the acts and proceedings of a general convention of the State of Virginia ... 1861 ebook free online. 1868. The Debates and Proceedings of the Constitutional Convention of the State of Virginia, Assembled at the City of Richmond, tuesday, December 3, 1867 New Nation, Richmond 1868 on line at Hathi Trust Digital Library; 1901–02
Lodge 266, Jersey City, New Jersey Lodge 168, Brooklyn, New York Pittsburgh Moose Convention, Toledo, Ohio. The Moose Fraternity (formerly The Loyal Order of Moose) [4] is a fraternal and service organization founded in 1888 and headquartered in Mooseheart, Illinois.
Delegates at the state convention in June elected 34 at-large or party leader delegates to attend the national convention along with the 65 elected official delegates.
The Virginia Association was a series of non-importation agreements adopted by Virginians in 1769 as a way of speeding economic recovery and opposing the Townshend Acts. Initiated by George Washington , drafted by George Mason , and passed by the Virginia House of Burgesses in May 1769, the Virginia Association was a way for Virginians to stand ...
As early as the 1930s, state lawmakers enacted laws to prepare for the possibility of Congress specifying the convention method of ratification. Many laws refer to a one-off event, with an ad-hoc convention convened solely for the purposes of the 21st Amendment. Other laws, however, provided guidelines for ratifying conventions in general.
It is supportive of the national Southern Baptist Convention (SBC). It was formed in 1993 when conservative Virginia Baptists across the state founded the SBCV fellowship. On September 16, 1996, messengers that met at Grove Avenue Baptist Church in Richmond, Virginia, voted for the fellowship to become a new Southern Baptist state convention.
In the wake of one of the deadliest U.S. school shootings, Virginia Democrats are calling on Lt. Gov. Winsome Earle-Sears to withdraw from the National Rifle Association’s upcoming convention ...
The Virginia Ratifying Convention (also historically referred to as the "Virginia Federal Convention") was a convention of 168 delegates from Virginia who met in 1788 to ratify or reject the United States Constitution, which had been drafted at the Philadelphia Convention the previous year.