Anderson v. Attorney General

LENK, J. (concurring).

I concur with the result and with much of the court's reasoning as to whether Initiative Petition 15-17 contains related subjects. I write separately because I agree with the dissent's view that the mandate in art. 48 of the Amendments to the Massachusetts Constitution requiring that a petition contain "only subjects ... which are related or which are mutually dependent" is disjunctive in nature; it sets out two alternatives and calls for two different analyses. I agree, further, with the dissent that the court should consider the phrase "mutually dependent" as it would…