At a national nominating convention, the presidential and vice president nominees are determined. Also the party comes up with its platform for the election.
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Democratic National Convention in Chicago Illinois .
Rhode Island did not send delegates to the Constitutional Convention because they did not support a stronger national government in its relationship with the states. Rhode Island was consistent in avoiding or lagging when asked to support national measures...even before the Constitutional Convention.
Delegates would be free to change their minds as new information was presented
Roosevelt realized that his appearance at the convention was unusual and unprecedented. He wanted that to be a symbol of how he intended to lead the country if he was chosen to be president. He wanted to offer the hope of new ways of thinking to the American people where Hoover had offered little beyond the same solutions that had not been working to that point.