Members Constitutional Review
Paste a bill or home rule petition and get a memo on what it needs to be enacted validly under the Massachusetts Constitution, then the substantive risks, tiered, with language that lowers them.
Twelve modules, from home rule and Article 97 to free speech, equal protection and Article 17, each read only when the bill triggers it. Form defects (roll calls, petitions, origination) come first, because they void a bill and are cheap to fix.
Educational only. Not legal or tax advice.
Open the tool (members) Request access Members · demo Ambiguity Detector
Paste in a bill or a section of the General Laws. It flags the words and phrases that cause trouble later — undefined terms, definitions that conflict across chapters, and language that will read one way to the drafter and another to a court.
The public face of Application 1. Three detection layers (cross-chapter definitional conflicts, regulatory overlays, undefined terms), severity-ranked alerts, and a disposition record for every one.
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Paste a draft and see the phrases courts have struggled to pin down — “related to,” “initially,” “notwithstanding any other provision of law” — each with the reason and the usual fix.
The first pass of every draft review, open to anyone. Runs in your browser; nothing you paste leaves the page.
Open the tool Members Ask the Drafting Manual
Put a drafting question to the Legislative Research and Drafting Manual and get an answer. Capitalization, structure, the conventions you would otherwise stop and look up.
Grounded in the General Court's own manual, so the answer comes with the passage it rests on.
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The Supreme Judicial Court Style Manual, 2025–2026 edition, made answerable — for work that has to match the court's own conventions.
Citation form, captions, signals, short forms, quotation formatting, hyphenation. Covers the full manual and all twelve appendices.
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Turns what you are looking for into a Westlaw boolean search.
Describe the question in plain language; get a search string with connectors and field restrictions you can paste straight in.
Request access Members Massachusetts Tax Statutes Navigator
Chapter 62 drawn as a single path from federal gross income to net tax — the Part A, B and C rate categories, the loss netting between them, the Fair Share surtax, the pass-through entity election.
Select any point on the diagram for the statutory definition behind it, or put a scenario to the assistant. Covers IRC conformity and decoupling, the § 2 modifications, deductions and exemptions, elective PTE excises under c. 63D, and credits down to net tax.
Educational only. Not legal or tax advice.
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