Rejected rearrangement of the state constitution, 1919.

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Rejected rearrangement of the state constitution, 1919.

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At the close of the 1918 session of the Massachusetts Constitutional Convention of 1917, a Committee on Rearrangement of the Constitution was appointed to incorporate after the 1918 election all amendments adopted since 1780 in a rearranged text. Accepted by the Convention (Aug. 12-13, 1919) and by the electorate (Nov. 1919), the rearranged constitution was challenged by governor and council and struck down by the Supreme Judicial Court in 1920 (233 Mass 603), a decision reaffirmed in 1921 (Loring v. Young, 239 Mass 349). A 1924 attempt to submit the rearranged constitution to the electorate by initiative petition was overruled by the attorney general. This series contains two copies of the rearrangement, one with certification by the state secretary of the 1919 ratification, the other signed by the Committee on Rearrangement.

1 folder ; 51 x 75 cm.

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