Legal Opinion
Bowe v. Secretary of Commonwealth
Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court
Decided September 20, 1946PublishedCited by 104 opinions
1Opinion of the CourtLummus, J.
Under the Forty-eighth Amendment to the Constitution of the Commonwealth, which provides for enactment by vote of the people of a proposed law initiated by ten qualified voters of the Commonwealth, two proposed laws were initiated by ten such voters, and are about to be placed on the ballot and submitted to popular vote at the coming State election.
One of those proposed laws is entitled "An Act relative to contributions by labor unions or persons acting in behalf *233thereof for political purposes or to campaign funds,” and purports to amend G. L. c. 55, § 7, “as amended by” St. 1938, c. 75, by…
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