Massachusetts Teachers Ass'n v. Secretary of the Commonwealth

At the November, 1980, general election, acting under the initiative process of the Constitution of the Commonwealth, the voters adopted as chapter 580 of the Acts of 1980 a tax limitation measure commonly known as Proposition 2V2. 4 The plaintiffs contend that Proposition 2V2 was not a proper subject of an initiative petition and that procedural requirements of the initiative process authorized by the Constitution were not adequately followed in the presentation of Proposition 2Vz to the voters. They also raise before us a challenge to the constitutionality of a substantive provision of…