CONVENTIONALISTS
\kənvˈɛnʃənəlˌɪsts], \kənvˈɛnʃənəlˌɪsts], \k_ə_n_v_ˈɛ_n_ʃ_ə_n_ə_l_ˌɪ_s_t_s]\
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In the Pennsylvania politics of 1804-1808, the name assumed by those extreme Democrats who desired to see a new convention called, to modify the Constitution of the State in a radically democratic sense, as opposed to the so-called "Constutionalists." Their leaders were Leib and Duane.
By John Franklin Jameson
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