The Commonwealth of Massachusetts
PETITION OF:
The Commonwealth of Massachusetts
PETITION OF:
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In the Year Two Thousand and Seven.
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Proposal for legislative amendment to the Constitution relative to civil and legal rights.
A majority of all the members elected to the Senate and House of Representatives, in joint session, hereby declares it to be expedient to alter the Constitution by the adoption of the following Article of Amendment, to the end that it may become a part of the Constitution [if similarly agreed to in a joint session of the next General Court and approved by the people at the state election next following]:
ARTICLE OF AMENDMENT.
Section 2 of part II of amendment XLVIII of the constitution is hereby amended by striking out the first paragraph and inserting in place thereof the following paragraph:-
No measure that relates to religion, religious practices or religious institutions; or to the appointment, qualification, tenure, removal, recall or compensation of judges; or to the reversal of a judicial decision; or to the powers, creation or abolition of courts; or the operation of which is restricted to a particular town, city or other political division or to particular districts or localities of the commonwealth; or that makes a specific appropriation of money from the treasury of the commonwealth, or relates to civil or legal rights shall be proposed by an initiative petition; but if a law approved by the people is not repealed, the general court shall raise by taxation or otherwise and shall appropriate such money as may be necessary to carry such law into effect.