League of Women Voters v. Secretary of the Commonwealth

Before us is a reservation and report, on the pleadings and a statement of agreed facts, of a challenge to the constitutionality of chapter 230 of the Acts of 1994 (chapter 230), which the people approved as an initiative petition at the November 8, 1994, election under art. 48 of the Amendments to the Constitution of the Commonwealth.2 Chapter 230 purports (a) to limit the number of consecutive terms for which a public officer may be listed on primary and general election ballots to serve in the same public office and (b) to eliminate the pay, perquisites, and privileges of certain public…