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Every four years, members of the Democratic and Republican Parties in the United States meet in order to nominate their parties' candidates for president, as well as to adopt a statement of party principles and goals known as the platform. And while 19th century conventions were often heated affairs at which presidential candidates were selected through intensive negotiations and multiple votes, the growth of the primary system has made today's events have become little more than media spectacles.

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The tumultuous 1968 Democratic National Convention in Chicago against the backdrop of the Vietnam War & the assassinations of civil rights leader Martin Luther King, Jr.  & presidential hopeful Robert Kennedy.

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Should public funds be used to finance party conventions?