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Massachusetts is officially named The Commonwealth of Massachusetts by its constitution. The name State of Massachusetts Bay was used in all acts and resolves up to 1780 and in the first draft of the constitution. The current name can be traced to the second draft of the state constitution, which was written by John Adams and ratified in 1780. [14]
Commonwealth of Toil: Chapters in the History of Massachusetts Workers and Their Unions (1996) Gutman, Herbert. The New England Working Class and the New Labor History (1987) Handlin, Oscar and Mary Flug Handlin. Commonwealth: A Study of the Role of Government in the American Economy: Massachusetts, 1774–1861 (1947), influential study online
Massachusetts was the first state in North America to require municipalities to appoint a teacher or establish a grammar school with the passage of the Massachusetts Education Law of 1647, [249] and 19th century reforms pushed by Horace Mann laid much of the groundwork for contemporary universal public education [250] [251] which was ...
Missouri: Show-Me State Like any good legend, Missouri's moniker has several origin stories. The phrase is widely attributed to Congressman Willard Duncan Vandiver, who served at the turn of the ...
Map of the United States showing the state nicknames as hogs. Lithograph by Mackwitz, St. Louis, 1884. The following is a table of U.S. state, federal district and territory nicknames, including officially adopted nicknames and other traditional nicknames for the 50 U.S. states, the U.S. federal district, as well as five U.S. territories.
Judging purely by party registration rather than voting patterns, New England today is one of the most Democratic regions in the U.S. [125] [126] [127] According to Gallup, Connecticut, Massachusetts, Rhode Island, and Vermont are "solidly Democratic", Maine "leans Democratic", and New Hampshire is a swing state. [128]
Americans are citizens of both the federal republic and of the state in which they reside, due to the shared sovereignty between each state and the federal government. [1] Kentucky, Massachusetts, Pennsylvania, and Virginia use the term commonwealth rather than state in their full official names. States are the primary subdivisions of the ...
Gov. Maura Healey ordered that the flags be lowered from April 1 to April 6 at all main or administration buildings for each town or city hall in Massachusetts, as well as other state-owned or ...