The acceptance speech takes place at a national convention before the adjournment. For a party's national convention in the US, the acceptance will be given by the party's nominee for the presidential election.
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This year it will take place the week of Sept 3rd.
The first session of the national convention is generally devoted to drafting the platform. Once a platform has been drafted voting can begin to take place.
In the United States, a national party convention is the means by which the candidates for president and vice president are determined.
At the Democratic National Convention of 1968 in Chicago, riots took place in the wake of Martin Luther King, Jr.'s and Robert F. Kennedy's assassinations. These events symbolized a particularly turbulent era.