Part Second. Encouragement of Literature, Trades, Etc
Index
- Art. 1. Name of Body Politic
- Art. 2. Legislature, How Constituted
- Art. 3. General Court, When to Meet and Dissolve
- Art. 4. Power of General Court to Establish Courts
- Art. 5. Power to Make Laws, Elect Officers, Define Their Powers and Duties, Impose Fines and Assess Taxes; Prohibited From Authorizing Towns to Aid Certain Corporations
- Art. 5-A. Continuity of Government In Case of Enemy Attack
- Art. 5-B. Power to Provide For Tax Valuations Based On Use
- Art. 6. Valuation and Taxation
- Art. 6-A. Use of Certain Revenues Restricted to Highways
- Art. 6-B. Use of Lottery Revenues Restricted to Educational Purposes
- Art. 7. Members of Legislature Not to Take Fees Or Act As Counsel
- Art. 8. Open Sessions of Legislature
- Art. 9. Representatives Elected Every Second Year; Apportionment of Representatives
- Art. 9-A. Legislative Adjustments of Census With Reference to Non-Residents
- Art. 10. Representation of Small Towns
- Art. 11. Small Towns; Representation By Districts
- Art. 11-A. Division of Town, Ward Or Place; Representative Districts
- Art. 12. Biennial Election of Representatives In November
- Art. 13. Qualifications of Electors
- Art. 14. Representatives, How Elected, Qualifications of
- Art. 15. Compensation of the Legislature
- Art. 16. Vacancies In House, How Filled
- Art. 17. House to Impeach Before the Senate
- Art. 18. Money Bills to Originate In House
- Art. 18-A. Budget Bills
- § Art. 19. Adjournment
- Art. 20. Quorum, What Constitutes
- Art. 21. Privileges of Members of Legislature
- Art. 22. House to Elect Speaker and Officers, Settle Rules of Proceedings, and Punish Misconduct
- Art. 23. Senate and Executive Have Like Powers; Imprisonment Limited
- Art. 24. Journals and Laws to Be Published; Yeas and Nayes; and Protests
- Art. 25. Senate, How Constituted
- Art. 26. Senatorial Districts, How Constituted
- Art. 26-A. Division of Town, Ward Or Place; Senatorial Districts
- Art. 27. Election of Senators
- Art. 28. Senators, How and By Whom Chosen; Right of Suffrage
- Art. 29. Qualifications of Senators
- Art. 30. Inhabitant Defined
- Art. 31. Inhabitants of Unincorporated Places; Their Rights, Etc
- Art. 32. Biennial Meetings, How Warned, Governed, and Conducted; Return of Votes, Etc
- Art. 33. Secretary of State to Count Votes For Senators and Notify Persons Elected
- Art. 34. Vacancies In Senate, How Filled
- Art. 35. Senate, Judges of Their Own Elections
- § Art. 36. Adjournment
- Art. 37. Senate to Elect Their Own Officers; Quorum
- Art. 38. Senate to Try Impeachments; Mode of Proceeding
- Art. 39. Judgment On Impeachment Limited
- Art. 40. Chief Justice to Preside On Impeachment of Governor
- Art. 41. Governor, Supreme Executive Magistrate
- Art. 42. Election of Governor, Return of Votes; Electors; If No Choice, Legislature to Elect One of Two Highest Candidates; Qualifications For Governor
- Art. 43. In Cases of Disagreement Governor to Adjourn Or Prorogue Legislature; If Causes Exist, May Convene Them Elsewhere
- Art. 44. Veto to Bills
- Art. 45. Resolves to Be Treated Like Bills
- Art. 46. Nomination and Appointment of Officers
- Art. 47. Governor and Council Have Negative On Each Other
- Art. 48. Field Officers to Recommend, and Governor to Appoint, Company Officers
- Art. 49. President of Senate, Etc., to Act As Governor When Office Vacant; Speaker of House to Act When Office of President of Senate Is Also Vacant
- Art. 49-A. Prolonged Failure to Qualify; Vacancy In Office of Governor Due to Physical Or Mental Incapacity, Etc
- Art. 50. Governor to Prorogue Or Adjourn Legislature, and Call Extra Sessions
- Art. 51. Powers and Duties of Governor As Commander-In-Chief
- Art. 52. Pardoning Power
- Art. 53. Militia Officers, Removal of
- Art. 54. Staff and Non-Commissioned Officers, By Whom Appointed
- Art. 55. Division of Militia Into Brigades, Regiments, and Companies
- Art. 56. Disbursements From Treasury
- Art. 57. Accounts of Military Stores
- Art. 58. Compensation of Governor and Council
- Art. 59. Salaries of Judges
- Art. 60. Councilors; Mode of Election, Etc
- Art. 61. Vacancies, How Filled, If No Choice
- Art. 62. Subsequent Vacancies; Governor to Convene; Duties
- Art. 63. Impeachment of Councilors
- Art. 64. Secretary to Record Proceedings of Council
- Art. 65. Councilor Districts Provided For
- Art. 66. Elections By Legislature May Be Adjourned From Day to Day; Order Thereof
- Art. 67. Election of Secretary and Treasurer
- Art. 68. State Records, Where Kept; Duty of Secretary
- Art. 69. Deputy Secretary
- Art. 70. Secretary to Give Bond
- Art. 71. County Treasurers, Registers of Probate, County Attorneys, Sheriffs, and Registers of Deeds Elected
- Art. 72. Counties May Be Divided Into Districts For Registering Deeds
- Art. 72-A. Supreme and Superior Courts
- Art. 73. Tenure of Office to Be Expressed In Commissions; Judges to Hold Office During Good Behavior, Etc.; Removal
- Art. 73-A. Supreme Court, Administration
- Art. 74. Judges to Give Opinions, When
- Art. 75. Justices of Peace Commissioned For Five Years
- Art. 76. Divorce and Probate Apeals, Where Tried
- Art. 77. Jurisdiction of Justices In Civil Causes
- Art. 78. Judges and Sheriffs, When Disqualified By Age
- Art. 79. Judges and Justices Not to Act As Counsel
- Art. 80. Jurisdiction and Term of Probate Courts
- Art. 81. Judges and Registers of Probate Not to Act As Counsel
- Art. 82. Clerks of Courts, By Whom Appointed
- Art. 83. Encouragement of Literature, Etc.; Control of Corporations, Monopolies, Etc
- Art. 84. Oath of Civil Officers
- Art. 85. Before Whom Taken
- Art. 86. Form of Commissions
- Art. 87. Form of Writs
- Art. 88. Form of Indictments, Etc
- Art. 89. Suicides and Deodands
- Art. 90. Existing Laws Continued If Not Repugnant
- Art. 91. Habeas Corpus
- Art. 92. Enacting Style of Statutes
- Art. 93. Governor and Judges Prohibited From Holding Other Offices
- Art. 94. Incompatibility of Offices; Only Two Offices of Profit to Be Holden At Same Time
- Art. 95. Incompatibility of Certain Offices
- Art. 96. Bribery and Corruption Disqualify For Office
- Art. 97. Value of Money, How Computed
- Art. 98. Constitution, When to Take Effect
- Art. 99. Revision of Constitution Provided For
- Art. 100. Alternate Methods of Proposing Amendments
- Art. 101. Enrollment of Constitution