One is that the word commonwealth sounds lofty. Why he used that word has been lost to time, but Sara Martin, the editor in chief of the Adams Family Papers Collection at the Massachusetts Historical Society, had a few possible clues as to why. An earlier draft of the Massachusetts constitution referred to it as the state of Massachusetts Bay.īut when Adams wrote his constitution, he said: We are the Commonwealth of Massachusetts. In Massachusetts, the name goes back to founding father and Massachusetts resident John Adams, who wrote the Massachusetts constitution, drafted in 1780. Massachusetts is one of four commonwealths in the nation, the others being Virginia, Pennsylvania and Kentucky.
You’ve heard it in speeches and seen it on government documents: Massachusetts is not a state.
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