The phrase "affirmative referendum" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used in contexts discussing a vote or decision that supports a particular proposal or policy.
Example: "The citizens voted in an affirmative referendum to approve the new environmental regulations."
Alternatives: "supportive referendum" or "pro-referendum".
When California voters approved an anti-affirmative action referendum in 1996, and a district court that same year banned affirmative action at universities in Texas, Louisiana, and Mississippi, educators feared that minority university admissions would suffer in those states.
And perhaps just as importantly, he was attempting to block California-based activist Ward Connerly from putting an affirmative-action referendum on the November 2000 Florida ballot.
A wealthy, conservative Republican and member of the California Board of Regents, he had pushed through contentious affirmative-action referendum measures that passed in California in 1996 and Washington state in 1998.
Proposition 22 is opposed by an intriguing cross-section of political leaders that includes the state's Democratic governor, Gray Davis, its two Democratic United States senators, Barbara Boxer and Dianne Feinstein, and Republicans like the San Diego mayor, Susan Golding, and Ward Connerly, the architect of California's 1996 anti-affirmative-action referendum.
Justice Brown, a black woman, wrote the majority opinion in 2000 interpreting the state's referendum against affirmative action in a way that delighted conservatives.
Following the lead of California, which had already rejected racial preferences in college admissions, voters in Washington passed a referendum forbidding affirmative action at the state university.
But Ward Connerly, a University of California regent and the architect of the state's 1996 referendum against affirmative action, said he needed more information before he could decide whether to support or oppose the proposal.
But the outpouring from blacks in Florida has made it clear that Mr. Bush's plan, an effort to fend off a more severe public referendum on affirmative action like those that passed in California and Washington, had failed to defuse the issue.
"Furthermore, the group's borrowing costs and its access to the debt capital markets and other sources of liquidity depend significantly on its and the UK government's credit ratings which would be likely to be negatively impacted by political events, such as an affirmative outcome of the referendum for the independence of Scotland".
However, Charlton seemed to accept the affirmative result of the referendum and again proved his loyalty to Hughes by defending him when he became the target of caucus criticism.
