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Section 2 of the Home Rule Amendment, provides: "[a]nycity or town . . . [has] the power to adopt or revise a charter or to amend its existing charter . . . [the provisions of which] shall not be inconsistent with the constitution or any laws enacted by the general court in conformity with the powers reserved to the general court by section eight."
Missouri was the first state to adopt a Home Rule provision in 1875, followed by California, Washington and Wisconsin between 1879 and 1898. In Massachusetts, Home Rule authority was granted to cities and towns in 1966.
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assessment: “You have the right to establish your own form of government here in Massachusetts, but even that’s constrained, to a certain degree, by what the [Home Rule Procedures Act] says. . . . So they say, ‘well, you’ve got home rule.’ But even though we have home rule we have to do a lot of things the way that they want [us] to ...
Ratified in 1966, the Home Rule Amendment to the Massachusetts Constitution (Article 89) explicitly provides that every city or town in the Commonwealth is entitled to a charter and outlines the process for the adoption, revision and amendment of a charter.
region to find out how home rule functions in practice. The results suggest that the standard story about home rule in Massachusetts is largely a myth. Indeed, promising but largely overlooked avenues for regional reform exist that would involve expanding—rather than limiting—home rule. Among the report’s key findings are: 1.
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Dec 31, 2023 · Home Rule. Massachusetts’ Home Rule Amendment, embodied in sections 1-9 of article II of the Articles of Amendment of the Massachusetts Constitution, grants cities and towns broad regulatory authority. Section 1 provides as follows:
Fearful of the growing appeal of these ideals in the United States, the Justice Department, under the leadership of Attorney General Mitchell Palmer, seized the offensive in late 1919. The so-called Palmer Raids led to the detaining of nearly 10,000 people and the arrest of 4,000 without due process of law.