Who drafted the 1780 Massachusetts Constitution?

• A. John Adams
• B. Thomas Jefferson
• C. James Madison
• D. Alexander Hamilton

Answer: (A)

The main idea here is recognizing who shaped Massachusetts’ governance at the time. John Adams drafted the 1780 Massachusetts Constitution, working as a delegate in the state’s constitutional proceedings. His draft laid out a framework with separate executive, legislative, and judicial branches and included a governor elected by the people with strong powers and checks and balances. That document was adopted in 1780 and guided Massachusetts for many years, influencing ideas about state government that later fed into the broader constitutional tradition of the new nation. The other figures were prominent Founding Fathers in different contexts, but they did not draft Massachusetts’ 1780 constitution.