[…] Years before John Adams put these notions into timeless prose, the people of Massachusetts , from every corner of the Commonwealth, understood and insisted on the first principles of constitutional government. The Massachusetts Constitution coined the phrase “we the people” …. and the people of Massachusetts lived up to it. So let’s toast the people of Massachusetts – North, East, South and West – for their singular role in devising the oldest constitution in the western world! “
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