Show national conventions convention although performing the function of selecting a mra to rule the nation for four years there Is not one single statute relating to national conventions public opinion alone polices them and they are sovereign in themselves A century ago when national conventions had their inception john quincy adams wrote in ia his diary these meetings cannot be multiplied without resulting in deeper tragedies their manifest tendency Is to civil war nevertheless the national conventions vent ions have reigned supreme and no man not chosen by one ever has been elected president |