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Massachusetts Question 19, Number of Executive and Administrative Departments Amendment (1918)
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| Type Constitutional convention referral |
Origin |
Massachusetts Question 19 was on the ballot as a constitutional convention referral in Massachusetts on November 5, 1918. It was approved.
A "yes" vote supported reorganizing the executive and administrative offices of the state into no more than twenty departments by January 1, 1921, under structures determined by the legislature. |
A "no" vote opposed reorganizing the executive and administrative offices of the state into no more than twenty departments by January 1, 1921, under structures determined by the legislature. |
Election results
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Massachusetts Question 19 |
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158,394 | 66.00% | ||
| No | 81,586 | 34.00% | ||
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Text of measure
Ballot title
The ballot title for Question 19 was as follows:
| “ | Shall the following Article of Amendment to provide for the more efficient administration of the business of the Commonwealth, submitted by the Constitutional Convention, be approved and ratified? Article of Amendment. On or before January first, nineteen hundred twenty-one, the executive and administrative work of the commonwealth shall be organized in not more than twenty departments, in one of which every executive and administrative office, board and commission, except those officers serving directly under the governor or the council, shall be placed. Such departments shall be under such supervision and regulation as the general court may from time to time prescribe by law. | ” |
Full Text
The full text of this measure is available here.
Path to the ballot
The Massachusetts Constitutional Convention of 1917–1919 referred the revised constitution to the ballot.
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