Assembly Quote by Thomas Jefferson

The convention is the voice, the bone and the sinews of a political party-and sometimes it even nominates an Abraham Lincoln.

— Fletcher Knebel

Conventions are, by nature, a party. I mean, that's why people become delegates. They come from all over the world to exercise their democratic…

— Rob Lowe

“Why was it sensible for Americans to transubstantiate a convention into the virtual embodiment of the People? After all, as with an ordinary legislative…

— Akhil Reed Amar

Society's the mother of convention.

— Carolyn Wells

“Let this constitution go forth from this convention, and from the new state, a model instrument of liberal and enlightened principles.”

— H.W. Brands

I don't believe in convention at all. I do what I have to do to stay alive.

— Quentin Crisp

I think there are some people who have this thing where, from the very beginning, some part of them rejects convention.

— Elvis Mitchell

The Constitution is what the judges say it is.

— Charles Evans Hughes

[Our Constitution] is an instrument for the people to restrain the government.

— Patrick Henry

There's a better chance of a brokered convention than any time in our lifetime.

— Renee Montagne

The debates of that great assembly are frequently vague and perplexed, seeming to be dragged rather than to march, to the intended goal. Something…

— Alexis de Tocqueville

We've looked for the constitution to be a national pact, and the perception now is that it's not.

— George W. Casey, Jr