A document to be very proud of
Parts of the Massachusetts Constitution.
“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!’’
— Mark D. Mason, Massachusetts Superior Court judge
Slightly correcting the judge: The Massachusetts Constitution, enacted in 1780, cites “the people of the State of Massachusetts-Bay.’’