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Excerpt from A History of the Constitution of Massachusetts The Province of the Massachusetts Bay (province Char ter), 1692 - 1774, Colony and State of Massachusetts Bay (provincial Con grees and Province Charter resumed), 1774-1780, The Movement for a State Constitution, 17 7 6 - 1780, 1. Preliminaries, 2. Constitution of 1778, and the Mex Result, 3. Constitutional Convention of 1779 - 1780, 4. The Ratification, Constitutional Development in the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, 1780 - 1915, 1. The Constitution of 1780, 2. The Constitutional Convention of 1820, 3. Period 1821 - 1850, 4. The Constitutional Convention of 1853, (a) Origin, 1850-1853, (b) Character, Organization, Procedure, Method...
In The Massachusetts State Constitution, Lawrence Friedman and Lynnea Thody present a comprehensive and accessible survey of Massachusetts constitutional history and constitutional law. The Massachusetts Constitution is the oldest state constitution and has remained essentially unchanged since it was drafted in 1780. It served as a model for the United States Constitution and many of the state constitutions that followed. The Massachusetts State Constitution provides an outstanding constitutional and historical account of the state's governing charter. It begins with an overview of Massachusetts's constitutional history, and then provides an in-depth, section-by-section analysis of the entir...