This page will never contain the financial endorsements of any special interest group or organization that looks to place its needs and will above the rights to “Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness”1 enjoyed by the individual People of Massachusetts. This page is dedicated to “We, the People of Massachusetts” and to the ideal that “We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.” 1
I pledge to you that when I am elected I will uphold the founding principles that “We the People of the United States, in Order to form a more perfect Union, establish Justice, insure domestic Tranquility, provide for the common defense, promote the general Welfare, and secure the Blessings of Liberty to ourselves and our Posterity.” 2
I pledge to you that when I am elected I will fulfill my promise to the people of Massachusetts that their voice will always be heard and these words from the Massachusetts Constitution shall always be honored: “A frequent recurrence to the fundamental principles of the constitution, and a constant adherence to those of piety, justice, moderation, temperance, industry, and frugality, are absolutely necessary to preserve the advantages of liberty, and to maintain a free government. The people ought, consequently, to have a particular attention to all those principles, in the choice of their officers and representatives: and they have a right to require of their lawgivers and magistrates, an exact and constant observance of them, in the formation and execution of the laws necessary for the good administration of the commonwealth.” 3
I pledge to you that when I am elected I will always remember - and always strive to bring to the remembrance of my fellow lawmakers - that we the People “secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed, That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their Safety and Happiness.” 1
We the People, you and I, therefore demand that “In the government of this commonwealth, the legislative department shall never exercise the executive and judicial powers, or either of them: the executive shall never exercise the legislative and judicial powers, or either of them: the judicial shall never exercise the legislative and executive powers, or either of them: to the end it may be a government of laws and not of men.” 4
References:
1. The Declaration Of Independence (emphasis added)
2. The Constitution Of The United States
3. Article XVIII of the Massachusetts Constitution (paraphrased)
4. Constitution Of The Commonwealth Of Massachusetts A Declaration of the Rights of the Inhabitants
of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts. Article XXX
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