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LEAGUE OF WOMEN VOTERS OF MASSACHUSETTS v. SECRETARY OF THE COMMONWEALTH

425 Mass. 424 (1997)

LEAGUE OF WOMEN VOTERS OF MASSACHUSETTS & others v. SECRETARY OF THE COMMONWEALTH.

Supreme Judicial Court of Massachusetts, Suffolk.

July 11, 1997.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Gerald A. McDonough (Verne W. Vance, Jr., with him) for the League of Women Voters of Massachusetts & others.

Morris M. Goldings for Daniel E. Bosley.

Thomus A. Barnico, Assistant Attorney General (Benjamin G. Robbins, Assistant Attorney General, with him) for the Secretary of the Commonwealth.

The following submitted briefs for amici curiae:

E. Randolph Tucker, Robert F. Schwartz & Andres W. Lopez, for the Democratic State Committee.

Robert G. Miller, pro se.

John T. Montgomery, John H. Mason & Harold Hestnes for the Massachusetts Business Roundtable.

Christopher A. Kenney & Edward J. Goddard for the U.S. Term Limits & another.

Present: WILKINS, C.J., ABRAMS, LYNCH, O'CONNOR, GREANEY, & FRIED, JJ.

WILKINS, C.J.

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...

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