Many, though personally committed remainers, may feel bound by the popular plebiscite.
During the mid-2000s, as the Catalan parliament ratified a new regional constitution approved by popular plebiscite and then saw the Spanish constitutional court emasculate it, "more and more people began to realise we were not as autonomous as we thought.
But many others -- including Sebastian Pinera, who would later actively oppose holding popular plebiscites on General Pinochet's policies in 1980 and 1988 -- got lost in the thorny thicket of Jeane Kirkpatrick's ultimately quite indefensible distinction between so-called "authoritarian" and "totalitarian" regimes.
After the Revolution of 1789, the plebiscite was popular in France because it was seen as an expression of popular sovereignty.
Shelley Argent, the national spokeswoman for Parents and Friends of Lesbian and Gays, said the poll undermined the idea that a plebiscite had popular appeal.
When the Soviet Union began to unravel in 1990 91, the legislature of the Ukrainian S.S.R. declared sovereignty (July 16 , 1990 and then outright independence (August 24 , 1991, a move that was confirmed by popular approval in a plebiscite (December 1 , 1991.
During partition, the Kashmiri population – the majority of whom is Muslim – was promised a choice of joining either India or Pakistan through a popular vote but this plebiscite never took place.
Plebiscites, or popular votes on issues of national importance, are historically rare and arguably ineffectual, considering they are non-binding, and don't change the nation's constitution.
Following the French Revolution in 1789, the plebiscite was widely popular in France, rooted as it was in the ideas of nationalism and popular sovereignty.
Meticulous ethnic balancing of the cabinet and an open-door economic policy further attracted support from prospering traders (and smugglers into Ghana), and by 1972 Eyadéma felt secure enough to seek popular legitimation via a presidential plebiscite.
After all, the fall presidential election is not a national popular vote election, not a plebiscite, but rather 50 different elections (plus the District of Columbia).
