The Convention sought the extirpation of episcopacy and the reduction of the Scottish monarchy from an absolute monarchy to a limited monarchy as part of the revolutionary constitutional change.

The Convention, partly drawing on United Kingdom bilateral conventions, sought to harmonise these different concepts by providing a procedural device acceptable to all systems.

The Convention thus seeks to promote and facilitate the cooperation and exchange of information and experiences between OAS Member States.

The Convention sought to justify the overthrow of James II.

After the arrest of the Girondin deputies in October 1793, the Convention sought to "recast the Republic in a more radical mold", eventually using the symbol of Hercules to represent the Republic.

Thus, the Single Convention seeks to allow medical and scientific use of psychoactive drugs while preventing recreational use.

According to its preamble, which incorporates in part the terms of article 220, the Convention seeks in particular to facilitate the recognition and enforcement of judgments of courts or tribunals and to strengthen in the Community the legal protection of persons therein established.

The Convention on the Civil Aspects of International Child Abduction, of 25 October 1980, known as the Hague Convention, seeks to guarantee the immediate return of children unlawfully removed or retained by one of their parents in a contracting State.

The Hague Convention was called for on the basis that the international adoption system was completely unregulated, and so the Convention sought to establish certain rules that the individual countries must enforce in order to prevent child laundering.

The Convention seeks to achieve its aim by proscribing acts, not classes of people.