[Conscience of a Conservative]

Unlike the Federal Constitution (which grants Congress limited and enumerated powers), the Massachusetts Constitution contains a very broad grant of power for the legislature:

[F]ull power and authority are hereby given and granted to the said general court*, from time to time, to make, ordain, and establish, all manner of wholesome and reasonable orders, laws, statutes, and ordinances, directions and instructions, either with penalties or without;

*: Note that the "general court," in the terminology of the Massachusetts Constitution, refers to the legislature, not the judiciary.

[RaisingCain]

And nowhere in that is the sense that the state can force individual citizens to purchase a service if they want to LIVE in the state.