You are not familiar with Massachusetts jurisprudence.
They kept full-on "blue laws" (no Sunday shopping) right up into the eighties.
They closed all the state mental hospitals and blamed the ensuing surge in homelessness on Ronald Reagan.
The suddenly found a clause promoting same-sex-marriage in the 200 year old state Constitution.
Former governor Dukakis once proclaimed that homeowners had no right whatsoever to fight back against robbers.