Amendment In Constitution Article In Massachusetts
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Article 11 (1780) Every subject of the commonwealth ought to find a certain remedy, by having recourse to the laws, for all injuries or wrongs which he may receive in his person, property, or character.
It created a Senate designed to check the abuses of the more democratic lower house. And it created an independent judiciary. For the Founding generation, the Massachusetts Constitution embodied important constitutional principles like the separation of powers and checks and balances.
Article XIV. Every subject has a right to be secure from all unreasonable searches, and seizures, of his person, his houses, his papers, and all his possessions.
Because Article 44 requires that all income of the same class be taxed at the same rate, Massachusetts applies a flat tax rate regardless of total income; the federal tax structure (and that used in most states) uses graduated rates.
Article 17 (1780) And as, in time of peace, armies are dangerous to liberty, they ought not to be maintained without the consent of the legislature; and the military power shall always be held in an exact subordination to the civil authority, and be governed by it.
Amendment Article 48 of the Massachusetts Constitution requires that the Attorney General's Office certify an initiative measure if the following requirements are met: The measure and its title are in proper form for submission to the voters.
In all Actions at law it shall be the libertie of the plantife and defendant by mutual consent to choose whether they will be tried by the Bench or by a Jurie, unless it be where the law upon just reason hath otherwise determined. The like libertie shall be granted to all persons in Criminall cases.”
Amendment Article 48 of the Massachusetts Constitution requires that the Attorney General's Office certify an initiative measure if the following requirements are met: The measure and its title are in proper form for submission to the voters.
A constitutional amendment must always be adopted by the people of Massachusetts, and this is done through a ballot question. The Secretary of the Commonwealth's Elections Division compiles election statistics and voter data in a publication popularly referred to as “PD43” (short for “Public Document 43”).
Art. V ( The Congress, whenever two thirds of both Houses shall deem it necessary, shall propose Amendments to this Constitution, or, on the Application of the Legislatures of two thirds of the several States, shall call a Convention for proposing Amendments. . .. ).
