Amendments Rejected by the People

[A proposed Article of Amendment prohibiting the manufacture and sale of Intoxicating Liquor as a beverage, adopted by the General Court during the sessions of the years 1888 and 1889, was rejected by the people on the twenty-second day of April, 1889.]

[Proposed Articles of Amendment, (1) Establishing biennial elections of state officers, and (2) Establishing biennial elections of members of the General Court; adopted by the General Court during the sessions of the years 1895 and 1896, were rejected by the people at the annual election held on the third day of November, 1896.]

[A proposed Article of Amendment to make Women eligible to appointment as Notaries Public, adopted by the General Court during the sessions of the years 1912 and 1913, was rejected by the people on the fourth day of November, 1913.]

[A proposed Article of Amendment enabling Women to vote, adopted by the General Court during the sessions of the years 1914 and 1915, was rejected by the people on the second day of November, 1915.]

[A proposed Article of Amendment to give the General Court the power to pass an income tax at graduated or proportioned rates, adopted by the General Court during the sessions of the years 1959 and 1961 was rejected by the people on the sixth day of November, 1962; and similar Articles of Amendment adopted by the General Court during the sessions of the years 1966 and 1967, 1973 and 1975, and 1992 and 1994 were rejected by the people on the fifth day of November, 1968, the second day of November, 1976, and the eighth day of November, 1994.]

[A proposed Article of Amendment authorizing the Legislature to classify real property according to uses, and authorizing the assessment, rating and taxation of real property at different rates in the different classes so established, but proportionately in the same classes while granting reasonable exemptions and abatements, approved by the General Court during the sessions of the years of 1968 and 1969, was rejected by the people on the third day of November, 1970.]

[A proposed Article of Amendment authorizing the General Court to impose and levy a graduated income tax and to base such tax upon the federal income tax, adopted by the General Court during the sessions of the years 1969 and 1971, was rejected by the people on the seventh day of November, 1972.]

[A proposed Article of Amendment changing the procedure by which the Legislature declares a measure to be an emergency law, adopted by the General Court during the sessions of the years 1977 and 1980, was rejected by the people on the fourth day of November, 1980.]

[A proposed Article of Amendment permitting the Commonwealth or its political subdivisions to extend aid to non-public schools students within the limits of the United States Constitution, adopted by the General Court during the sessions of the years 1980 and 1982, was rejected by the people on the second day of November, 1982; and a similar Article of Amendment adopted by the General Court during the sessions of the years 1984 and 1986, was rejected by the people on the fourth day of November, 1986.]

[A proposed Article of Amendment relative to allowing the General Court to regulate the practice and public funding of abortions consistent with the United States Constitution, adopted by the General Court during the sessions of the years 1984 and 1986, was rejected by the people on the fourth day of November, 1986.]