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National Convention
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National Convention
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1. (Government, Politics & Diplomacy) a convention held every four years by each major US political party to choose its presidential candidate
2. (Historical Terms) French history the longest lasting of the revolutionary assemblies, lasting from Sept. 1792 to Oct. 1795, when it was replaced by the Directory
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Georges Jacques Danton Speech to the French convention (1791) The family is more sacred than the state, and men are begotten not for the earth and for time, but for Heaven and eternity.
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