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The Virginia Conventions were assemblies of delegates elected for the purpose of establishing constitutions of fundamental law for the Commonwealth of Virginia superior to General Assembly legislation
The Virginia Constitutional Convention 1829–1830 met in Richmond, Virginia. A convention of three generations, the last gathering of Revolutionary era giants
Raleigh Tavern, Colonial Williamsburg First Virginia Convention met here, 1774
Peyton Randolph 1774, 1775
Edmund Pendleton 1776, 1788
"Give me liberty or give me death!" is a quotation attributed to American politician and orator Patrick Henry from a speech he made to the Second Virginia Convention on March 23, 1775, at St. John's C
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…officer and they elected delegates to the Continental Congress. At the convention, Patrick Henry proposed arming the Virginia militia and delivered his "Give me liberty or give me death!" speech to rally support for the measure. It was resolved that the colony be "put into a posture of defence: and that Patrick Henry, Richard Henry Lee, Robert…
Patrick Henry's 1775 "Give me liberty, or give me death!" speech, depicted in an 1876 lithograph by Currier and Ives now housed in the Library of Congress in Washington, D.C.
Portrait by George Bagby Matthews after Thomas Sully, c. 1891
William Wirt, c. 1832
The phrase appearing as graffiti in Hong Kong during the 2019–2020 Hong Kong protests