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1778. CONVENTION (Federal), Call for.—

The want of some authority which
should procure justice to the public creditors,
and an observance of treaties with foreign
nations, produced the call of a convention of
the States at Annapolis. [105]
The Anas. Washington ed. ix, 89. Ford ed., i, 158.
(1818)

 
[105]

For quotation purposes the Annapolis Commercial
Convention, and the Philadelphia Federal Convention
are treated as one body.—Editor.