In the general statutes of Massachusetts of 1860. section 1. chapter 7. we have a statute exactly reenacting the words of the constitution. Now. we added the twentythird amendment to the constitution. which was ratified. I think. in 1859 and annulled in 1863. which related to naturalized voters. and this act of 1860 referred. among other things. to the twentythird amendment. After that amendment was annulled. that section. being still the law. was reenacted in its very words. except leaving out the reference to the twentythird amendment. it having been meanwhile annulled. So there has never been a moment from 1860 up to the present time when statutes in the exact words of the existing constitution have not been in force and precisely of the same effect as they are in force today.
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