United States, Georgia, 32.75042, -83.50018Justice, George2006-08-10Encyclopedia article about constitutional conventions in Georgia. Constitutional conventions are a distinctly American political innovation, first appearing during the era of the Revolutionary War (1775-83). Georgia was among the first states to use a meeting of delegates to create a constitution. In October 1776, just three months after the American colonies declared independence from Great Britain, Georgia's first constitutional convention met and produced the state's inaugural constitution, known as the Constitution of 1777. Several other states also chose the convention method as a means of adopting new constitutions. Others, however, used their provincial congresses to frame a founding document for a new state government.GSE identifier: SS8CG1, SS8H3text/htmlengForms part of the New Georgia Encyclopedia.http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC/1.0/Forms part of the New Georgia Encyclopedia.Constitutional conventions--GeorgiaGeorgia--Politics and governmentGeorgia. Constitutional Convention (1795)Georgia. Constitutional Convention (1865)Georgia. Constitutional Convention (1867-1868)Georgia. Constitutional Convention (1877)Constitutional conventionsText