What is the 2010 population of the neighborhood where the Massachusetts General Court meets?
9,023
Beacon Hill, Boston
Beacon Hill is a historic neighborhood in Boston, Massachusetts.
 According to the 2010 U.S. Census, the population of Boston's Beacon Hill neighborhood is 9,023.
Massachusetts General Court
The Massachusetts General Court (formally styled the General Court of Massachusetts) is the state legislature of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts.
 The name "General Court" is a hold-over from the earliest days of the Massachusetts Bay Colony, when the colonial assembly, in addition to making laws, sat as a judicial court of appeals.
 Before the adoption of the state constitution in 1780, it was called the Great and General Court, but the official title was shortened by John Adams, author of the state constitution.
 It is a bicameral body.
 The upper house is the Massachusetts Senate which is composed of 40 members.
 The lower body, the Massachusetts House of Representatives, has 160 members.
 (Until 1978, it had 240 members) It meets in the Massachusetts State House on Beacon Hill in Boston.
List of Massachusetts Senate delegations
The Massachusetts Senate is the upper house of the Massachusetts General Court, the bicameral state legislature of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts.
 The Senate comprises 40 elected members from 40 single-member senatorial districts in the state.
 Descended from the colonial legislature, the current Massachusetts Senate was established in June 1780 upon the adoption of the Massachusetts Constitution.
 The first General Court met in October 1780 and consisted of one-year elected terms for both houses.
 This was expanded to two-year terms starting with the 142nd General Court in January 1921.
 The current delegation is the 187th General Court (2011–2012), consisting of 36 Democrats (D) and 4 Republicans (R). Harry C. Foster
Harry Choate Foster (August 27, 1871 – March 5, 1917) was an American politician who served as a member of the Massachusetts General Court and as mayor of Gloucester, Massachusetts.
 He was expelled from the Massachusetts House of Representatives in 1916 for conduct unbecoming a member of the General Court after he collected money from people interested in pending legislation. Robert Keayne
Robert Keayne (1595 – March 23, 1656) was a prominent public figure in 17th-century Boston, Massachusetts.
 He co-founded the Ancient and Honorable Artillery Company of Massachusetts and served as speaker of the House of the Massachusetts General Court.
 Keayne was a prosperous London merchant who joined his fellow Puritans in Boston where he built a fortune.
 He was accused of unfair business practices, and brought before the legislature, the Massachusetts General Court.
 It found Keayne guilty, fined him, and compelled him to confess his “sins.”
 He proclaimed his innocence, and justified his actions in elaborate detail in his will.
 It bequeathed £2500 to Boston, to upgrade the infrastructure with an aqueduct, relieve the city's poor, and fund the First Town-House, a grand public meeting place.
 He attached a condition to the effect that the bequest would become void if there were any legal actions against his estate; there were none. Solomon Lombard
The Reverend Honorable Solomon Lombard (17021781) was elected to the Massachusetts General Court in 1765.
 Lombard Esq. was an Agent to the Boston Convention in 1768, a Representative to the Massachusetts Provincial Congress in 1774, a Representative to the Great and General Court at Salem, Massachusetts in 1774 and a Judge of the Massachusetts Court of Common Pleas from 1776 to 1781. Massachusetts State House
The Massachusetts State House, also known as the Massachusetts Statehouse or the New State House, is the state capitol and seat of government for the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, located in the Beacon Hill/Downtown neighborhood of Boston.
 The building houses the Massachusetts General Court (state legislature) and the offices of the Governor of Massachusetts.
 The building, designed by noted architect Charles Bulfinch, was completed in January 1798 at a cost of $133,333 (more than five times the budget), and has repeatedly been enlarged since.
 It is considered a masterpiece of Federal architecture and among Bulfinch's finest works, and was designated a National Historic Landmark for its architectural significance. General Laws of Massachusetts
The Massachusetts General Laws is a codification of many of the statutes of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts.
 The Commonwealth's laws are promulgated by an elected bicameral ("two-chamber") legislative body, the Massachusetts General Court.
 The resulting laws—both Session Laws and General Laws—together make up the statutory law of the Commonwealth. Richard Tisei
Richard R. Tisei ( ; born August 13, 1962) is an American politician and realtor from Massachusetts.
 A Republican, he served in the Massachusetts General Court for 26 years, first in the Massachusetts House of Representatives, rising to become the Minority Leader of the Massachusetts Senate.
 He was the Republican nominee for Lieutenant Governor of Massachusetts in 2010 and the nominee for U.S. Congress from Massachusetts's 6th district in 2012 and 2014 but lost all of these races. Massachusetts Body of Liberties
The Massachusetts Body of Liberties was the first legal code established by European colonists in New England.
 Compiled by the Puritan minister Nathaniel Ward, the laws were established by the Massachusetts General Court in 1641.
 The Body of Liberties begins by establishing the exclusive right of the General Court to legislate and dictate the "Countenance of Authority".