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Massachusetts Declaration of Rights, Article XIV  

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  • The Massachusetts Declaration of Rights is the first part of the Constitution of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts. Authored primarily by John Adams, the declaration constituted Chapter 1 of “The Report of a Constitution, or Form of Government, for the Commonwealth of Massachusetts,” presented by the drafting committee to the Convention of Delegates at Cambridge on September 1, 1779. [Source: Encyclopedia of the Fourth Amendment; Massachusetts Declaration of Rights, Article XIV]

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