"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:
“With respect to a true culture and manhood, we are essentially provincial still, not metropolitan,—mere Jonathans. We are provincial, because we do not find at home our standards; because we do not worship truth, but the reflection of truth; because we are warped and narrowed by an exclusive devotion to trade and commerce and manufacturers and agriculture and the like, which are but means, and not the end.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)
“I date the end of the old republic and the birth of the empire to the invention, in the late thirties, of air conditioning. Before air conditioning, Washington was deserted from mid-June to September.... But after air conditioning and the Second World War arrived, more or less at the same time, Congress sits and sits while the presidents—or at least their staffs—never stop making mischief.”
—Gore Vidal (b. 1925)