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    The Massachusetts General Court, formally the General Court of Massachusetts, is the state legislature of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts located in...
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    Massachusetts General Court is the current meeting of the legislative branch of the state government of Massachusetts, composed of the Massachusetts Senate...
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  • of Massachusetts is known as the General Court. It has a 40-member upper house (Massachusetts Senate) and a 160-member lower house (Massachusetts House...
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    as an upper house of the General Court, and provided advice and consent to the governor. The early governors of Massachusetts Bay were staunchly Puritan...
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    September 3, 2024. Massachusetts voters will select all 40 members of the State Senate to serve two-year terms in the Massachusetts General Court. The election...
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    The Massachusetts House of Representatives is the lower house of the Massachusetts General Court, the state legislature of Massachusetts. It is composed...
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  • ("two-chamber") legislative body, the Massachusetts General Court. The resulting laws—both Session Laws and General Laws—together make up the statutory...
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    42.359297; -71.060954 The Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court (SJC) is the highest court in the Commonwealth of Massachusetts. Although the claim is disputed...
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    The Massachusetts Senate is the upper house of the Massachusetts General Court, the bicameral state legislature of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts. The...
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    Massachusetts House of Representatives and Massachusetts Senate comprise the legislature of Massachusetts, known as the Massachusetts General Court....
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    chosen for the site of the college by the Great and General Court, then the legislature of Massachusetts Bay Colony, primarily for its proximity to the popular...
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    September 3, 2024. Massachusetts voters will select all 160 members of the State House to serve two-year terms in the Massachusetts General Court. The election...
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  • Seventeenth Amendment, the state's U.S. senators were chosen by the Massachusetts General Court, and before 1935, their terms began March 4. The current senators...
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    English settlers in the Puritan Great Migration. In 1639, the Massachusetts General Court purchased the land that would become present-day Lexington, then...
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  • General Court may refer to: General Court (European Union) New Hampshire General Court Massachusetts General Court Cortes Generales, the national parliament...
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    incorporated by charter into the Province of Massachusetts Bay on October 7, 1691, although the General Court of the Plymouth Colony remained in effective...
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    List of presidents of the Massachusetts Senate List of Massachusetts General Courts List of former districts of the Massachusetts House of Representatives...
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  • Massachusetts is governed by a set of political tenets laid down in its state constitution. Legislative power is held by the bicameral General Court,...
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    Province of Massachusetts Bay existed until early October 1774, when members of the General Court met in contravention of the Massachusetts Government...
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    Commonwealth of Massachusetts, located in the Beacon Hill neighborhood of Boston. The building houses the Massachusetts General Court (state legislature)...
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    The Massachusetts Appeals Court is the intermediate appellate court of Massachusetts. It was created in 1972 as a court of general appellate jurisdiction...
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    to the royal demands. Randolph reported to London that the General Court of Massachusetts Bay claimed that the King had no right to interfere with their...
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    Gen. L. c. 34B "General Laws of Massachusetts, Chapter 34B. Abolition of County Government". Massachusetts General Court. Archived from the original on...
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  • 257 (married before 1690). John A. Schultz, Legislators of the Massachusetts General Court 1691-1780, Boston, Northeastern University Press, 1997, p. 216...
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    The Massachusetts attorney general is an elected constitutionally defined executive officer of the Massachusetts government. The officeholder is the chief...
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    the absence of a Governor, to serving as an upper house of the Massachusetts General Court (the state legislature). Whether going by the name of "Council...
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    continue to localize based upon Massachusetts's counties. The county was created by the Massachusetts General Court on May 10, 1643, when it was ordered...
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  • Original of all Power. The legislative body of Massachusetts, known as the Massachusetts General Court, instead drafted its own version of a constitution...
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  • the Massachusetts Senate History of the Massachusetts General Court List of Massachusetts General Courts List of former districts of the Massachusetts House...
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    Boston. In 1962, the 162nd Massachusetts General Court expanded the UMass System for the first time to Worcester, Massachusetts with the creation of the...
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