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CONSTITUTION AND GOVERNMENT

OF MASSACHUSETTS

WITH A CHAPTER ON LEGISLATIVE PROCEDURE

BY

LOUIS ADAMS FROTHINGHAM, LL. B.

SPEAKER, MASSACHUSETTS HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES, 1904-1905
LIEUTENANT-GOVERNOR OF MASSACHUSETTS, 1908-1910
OVERSEER OF HARVARD UNIVERSITY

MEMBER U.S. HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

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HOUGHTON MIFFLIN COMPANY

BOSTON NEW YORK CHICAGO SAN FRANCISCO
The Riverside Press Cambridge

COPYRIGHT, 1916 AND 1925

BY LOUIS A. FROTHINGHAM

ALL RIGHTS RESERVED

The Riverside Press

CAMBRIDGE MASSACHUSETTS

PRINTED IN THE U.S.A.

PREFACE

THIS small volume is the outgrowth of a series of lectures given at Harvard University. It is put forth primarily for the use of students there, but it may also prove of assistance to the members of the General Court, to those who are interested in constitutional and historical matters, and at the present time, when a constitutional convention is contemplated, to those who may serve as delegates.

I wish to express my appreciation of the kindness of Professor Edward Channing who was good enough to read the chapters on the early history. To the efficient Clerk of the House of Representatives, Mr. James W. Kimball, who read the chapter on Legislative Procedure, I owe thanks for valuable suggestions. To Professor W. B. Munro, who advised publication and revised the original material, I owe the encouragement to begin as well as to complete the work.

The author is conscious of many omissions and shortcomings in this book, but has endeavored to include in it data that seemed of most importance to those interested in study or casual investigation of constitutional and legislative matters.

The above was written in 1915 when this book was first published. The Constitutional Convention predicted took place in 1917. To cover that convention and various changes in laws and legislative procedure the book is brought up to date.

NORTH EASTON, 1925.

L. A. FROTHINGHAM

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