"Provincial Congress" can refer to one of several extra-legal legislative bodies established in some of the Thirteen Colonies early in the American Revolution. These bodies were generally renamed or replaced with other bodies when the provinces declared themselves states.
They include:
- Massachusetts Provincial Congress
- North Carolina Provincial Congress
- New York Provincial Congress
- Provincial Congress of New Jersey
- South Carolina Provincial Congress
- New Hampshire Provincial Congress
- New Jersey Provincial Congress
Analogous bodies include:
- Annapolis Convention (1774–1776)
- Virginia Conventions
Famous quotes containing the words provincial and/or congress:
“In sci-fi convention, life-forms that hadn’t developed space travel were mere prehistory—horse-shoe crabs of the cosmic scene—and something of the humiliation of being stuck on a provincial planet in a galactic backwater has stayed with me ever since.”
—Barbara Ehrenreich (b. 1941)
“I have been up to see the Congress and they do not seem to be able to do anything except to eat peanuts and chew tobacco, while my army is starving.”
—Robert E. Lee (1807–1870)