Supporters of slavery wanted to organize a constitutional convention that could put Kansas into the Union as a slave state.

VOA: special.2009.05.21

Well, I think, as the convention, it would be very difficult to leave the government because nobody else is just living in the state of nature.

我认为，按照惯例来说，想要脱离政府会是十分困难的,因为没有其他人生活在自然状态下。

耶鲁公开课 - 公正课程节选

The state legislature agreed to open a convention on December seventeenth.

VOA: special.2009.07.16

Other than Mr.Museveni and Zambia's President Banda, the only other African Union member state presidents to sign the IDP convention were Zimbabwe's Robert Mugabe, Mohammed Abdelaziz of the territory of Western Sahara,and Somalia's Sheikh Sharif Ahmed.

VOA: standard.2009.10.23