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The secretary of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts is a constitutional officer in the executive branch of the U.S. state of Massachusetts.Originally appointed under authority of the English Crown pursuant to the Charter of the Massachusetts Bay Company, the office of secretary of the Commonwealth (equivalent to "secretaries of state" in other U.S. jurisdictions) became an elective one in 1780.
Massachusetts is the sixth-smallest state by land area. With over seven million residents as of 2020, [note 1] it is the most populous state in New England, the 16th-most-populous in the country, and the third-most densely populated, after New Jersey and Rhode Island. Massachusetts was a site of early English colonization.
The state has an open-meeting law enforced by the attorney general, and a public-records law enforced by the Secretary of the Commonwealth. A 2008 report by the Better Government Association and National Freedom of Information Coalition ranked Massachusetts 43rd out of the 50 US states in government transparency.
On Thursday, Gov. Maura Healey (D-Mass.) signed an executive order to eliminate “unnecessary” degree requirements from most state job listings. Announcing the change in a speech at the Boston ...
1851 Massachusetts legislature. Henry Wilson, Senate president. Nathaniel Banks, House speaker. Leaders of the Massachusetts General Court, 1851. The 72nd Massachusetts General Court, consisting of the Massachusetts Senate and the Massachusetts House of Representatives, met in 1851 during the governorship of George S. Boutwell.
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Boston: Commonwealth of Massachusetts. 2003. hdl:2452/40814. "Massachusetts Legislature Repeals Clean Elections Law", New York Times, June 21, 2003 "Weekly Roundup - Week of Nov. 29, 2004", Statehousenews.com, Boston: State House News Service, archived from the original on December 8, 2004; External links
MassINC. The Massachusetts Institute for a New Commonwealth, or " MassINC ," is registered as a non-profit 501 (c) organization that functions as a nonpartisan, evidence-based think tank. [2] [3] Its mission is to develop a public agenda for Massachusetts that promotes the growth and vitality of the middle class.