Initiative petition files (Executive Bureau--first assistant attorney general scheduled item), 1919-1953.

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Initiative petition files (Executive Bureau--first assistant attorney general scheduled item), 1919-1953.

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The attorney general of Massachusetts is the Commonwealth's chief legal officer. Const Amend Art 48 Init, Pt 2, S 3 requires that an initiative petition be signed by ten qualified voters of Commonwealth and submitted to the attorney general, who certifies its compliance with the state constitution and prepares a summary thereof for the election ballot. Series is created by the first assistant attorney general's unit within that bureau to conduct constitutional review.

1.25 cubic ft. (1 record center carton)

Commonwealth of Massachusetts State Archives

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Commonwealth of Massachusetts State Archives

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In connection with a robbery and murders committed Apr. 1920 in South Braintree, Massachusetts, Nicola Sacco and Bartolomeo Vanzetti were indicted Sept. 1920 and prosecuted and convicted in 1921 in Norfolk Superior Court. After reviews of the trial and conviction by the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court and by an advisory committee appointed by Gov. Alvan T. Fuller and denial of petitions by defense counsel in the U.S. Supreme Court, the sentence of execution originally imposed on Sacco and V...