The word lawmaker refers to a legislator — whether that's in the U.S. Congress or a state legislature. However, there is also someone else who can make laws in Massachusetts: you.
Massachusetts is the only state in the country where its citizens have an explicit constitutional right to file bills directly in the state legislature, as the State Library of Massachusetts points out. The idea came from English common law, and first appeared in the Massachusetts Body of Liberties in 1641, and once again in the Massachusetts Constitution of 1780.
