Administrative files of the Constitutional Convention of 1917, 1917-1919.

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Administrative files of the Constitutional Convention of 1917, 1917-1919.

Pursuant to St 1916, c 98, the voters of Massachusetts approved a proposal for a constitutional convention, which, meeting in a three sessions, 1917-1919, resulted in proposal and ratification of twenty-two amendments to the Constitution (Const Amend Arts 45-66). (Approval was also given to an arrangement--later nullified--of the original text of the Constitution and all subsequent amendments in a unified form; see: Rejected rearrangement of the state constitution ((M-Ar)36X)). Administrative files of the convention include resolutions relating to amendments and orders relating to business matters of the convention.

1.4 cubic ft. (4 doc. boxes)

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