Posted on 11/07/2014 5:36:43 PM PST by BenLurkin
Thanks for clarifying. I was sloppy in the terminology. IIRC though, there have been some initiatives that were put on the ballot by the legislature as well, haven’t there?
Give us Barabbas! ...And free stuff!
Yes there’s a procedure for that too. ( and even when citizens vote the courts can still overturn that direct will of the people, such as happened in Californicate when the courts threw out the people’s referendum to repeal the Rumford Fair Housing law passed by the legislature).
If only I hadn’t lost all my guns and ammunition down an unmarked mine shaft on that trip to the desert,<<
Luckily I live near the ocean!...so I lost mine in a canoe accident...but I feel your pain....
In the United States, a popular vote on a measure is referred to as a referendum only when originating with the legislature. An initiative may be called a “ballot measure”, “initiative measure”, or “proposition”.
The United States has no initiative process at the national level, but the initiative is in use at the level of state government in 24 states and the District of Columbia, and is also in common use at the local government level.
In the United States, [Peoples Veto] exists, as of May 2009, in 23 states and one territory: Alaska, Arizona, Arkansas, California, Colorado, Idaho, Maine, Maryland, Massachusetts, Michigan, Missouri, Montana, Nebraska, Nevada, New Mexico, North Dakota, Ohio, Oklahoma, Oregon, South Dakota, Utah, Washington, Wyoming and the U.S. Virgin Islands. The popular referendum [or Peoples Veto] was first introduced in the United States by South Dakota in 1898, and first used in the United States in 1906, in Oregon, two years after the initiative was used (in 1904, also in Oregon).
Yes, it is now working on this end as well. Someone must have corrected the link.
I just voted and I don’t recall seeing this on the ballot.
Just looked it up, and I did review this and vote no on it. As usual, my no was voted down by the idiots in the state.
Much of the middle class American-Americans left California. I guess the plan is to replace them with illegals and criminals.
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