11.   Their national nominating conventions no longer nominate presidential candidates.

12.   The declaration also announced that a national convention would be held within six months in order to lay down basic principles to draft a firm constitution.

13.   The national convention would be held no later than one month after the end of the co-ordination meeting.

14.   Reports in mid-July suggested that the government faced continued opposition to its preparations for a national convention to draft a new Constitution.

15.   Meanwhile newly established caretaker committees for each party were to start electing new leaderships and organizing national conventions.

16.   Although it may mean less than nothing by national convention time next year, for the moment Dole is awarded extra points for outmaneuvering Senate rival Phil Gramm.

17.   Amendments can be proposed by Congress, after a two-thirds vote in each house, or by a national constitutional convention.

18.   And a relative handful have ever attended a national political convention.

19.   And as Democrats headed to Chicago for their national convention in August, Clinton signed a welfare reform bill strenuously opposed by most Congressional blacks.

20.   And a national convention, including its own Super Bowl, draws thousands yearly.