Legal Opinion
Opinion of the Justices to the House of Representatives
Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court
Decided February 28, 1928PublishedCited by 27 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
*604To The Honorable the House of Representatives of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts:
The Justices of the Supreme Judicial Court respectfully submit this answer to the question propounded by the order adopted on the twenty-eighth day of February, 1928. Copy of the order is hereto annexed.
The substance of the question is whether a pending matter purporting to be a “proposed law” introduced by an initiative petition is within the terms of art. 48 of the Amendments to the Constitution. The title of the “proposed law” is “An Act to ascertain the will of the people of the Commonwealth with reference…
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