Peers are people who are part of the same social group, so the term peer pressure means the influence that peers can have on each other.
The Constitutional convention took place in Philadelphia on May 14, 1787. Rhode Island, fearing that the Convention would work to its disadvantage, boycotted the Convention and, when the Constitution was put to the states, initially refused to ratify it.
And the first two national conventions in Worcester, Massachusetts, were held in anticipation of an 1853 state constitutional convention. Through this process, women's rights activists generated a coherent critique of women's position in society.