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...need of a new charter for Cambridge has been keenly felt for many years past, the document now in force being, with the exception of certain changes made in 1891, the same instrument of government adopted in 1846. Many amendments have been made both by general and special acts, so that the provisions of the original charter are now in many cases entirely out of accord with the law and with the actual practice of the City government...
...Professor L. J. Johnson, of the Engineering Department, drew up a charter on the commission form of city government, modeled after the newer charters of the western cities. This document was submitted to the voters on a referendum and it was defeated, the chief objection being that it did not take sufficiently into consideration the peculiar needs of Cambridge. Professor Johnson has revised this charter and it will probably be again submitted to the Legislature and to the voters at the next elections...
...charter Commission began its work by a careful study of needs of Cambridge not fulfilled by the present charter and an investigation of the inadequate provisions of that document. As a result of this investigation, greatly facilitated by Professor Munro's experience in the matters of municipal government, a number of recommendations as to changes were drawn up. These recommendations are embodied in the draft of the proposed charter and embrace changes in many departments. Various other proposals were made, such as the adoption of a Commission form of government, the abolition of party designations, preferential voting, and others...
...will stand squarely on the National Progressive platform although I do not believe that all the propaganda contained in that document can be embodied in practical measures in one or even in several sessions of legislatures and Congresses. I am firmly convinced that the Progressive party will persevere until it gains complete control of the Massachusetts legislature; and therefore it must begin...
...lawyer, the President admitted that perhaps he might lay too much stress upon observance of the Constitution as a sacred and unimpeachable document. But he believed that the instrument which had been tried and found good for so many years, as the foundation of our government, should not lightly be cast aside. Only when the people, after mature deliberation, have decided that a change is necessary and wise, should the Constitution be altered. We will never go far astray if we adhere strictly to the fundamentals of that work which Gladstone rightly called the greatest single document ever struck from...