Another six allow initiatives only to enact statutes.
"If this weapon is successful in banning legislation, we'll see it deployed in the 21 other states that allow initiatives and referendums".
Legally and culturally, says Dane Waters, an expert, "California is a different animal altogether".Three states allow initiatives only to amend the state constitution, and one of these, Illinois, makes this so difficult that only one binding initiative has ever qualified.
She fought to let voters put proposed laws and constitutional amendments on the ballot without going through the Legislature, but lawmakers rejected her proposals to amend the state Constitution to allow initiatives and referendums.
But California does not allow initiatives to be amended, so they remain until the issue comes to the ballot box again (which may be next year).The net effect of all initiatives is that the legislative branch of California's government has been split in two.
The statement said that if the Legislature lacked the will to change campaign finance laws, the group would press for approval of a constitutional amendment allowing "initiative and referendum" on the issue.
And even that wouldn't have happened if not for a 2014 law that allows initiative backers to withdraw their measure at the eleventh hour if their policy issue is handled instead by lawmakers in Sacramento.
California should consider allowing initiatives only to enact statutes, as many other states do, not amend the constitution.
And in 2010, when the county commission voted to allow an initiative onto the fall ballot that would fund a light-rail system around Tampa with a one-cent sales-tax increase, Jaroch and another woman led the opposition.
Turkey would never allow any "initiative that would interrupt democracy," Yildirim vowed.
