In Section 2 we discuss a number of known results, which we call propositions throughout the section.
In a campaign mailer, Mr. Adachi called Proposition C "a backroom deal".
"I thought it would hurt kids," Mr. Noonan said of the ballot initiative, which was called Proposition 227.
But the vote on term limits, called Proposition 45, was heading for a significant loss despite heavy spending by its supporters, largely Democrats and some unions.
The exhibition is called "Proposition Player," for the independent contractor in the gaming industry who is paid by the house to start games.
Laws classifying individuals based on sexual orientation — the anti-gay-marriage initiative in California called Proposition 8 and the federal Defense of Marriage Act — must be given heightened scrutiny.
Voters in South Dakota may ban all smoking of cigarettes in restaurants and bars on the very same day that Californians might completely legalise the smoking of joints.That latter measure, called Proposition 19, is certainly the most controversial of the lot.
Since his last term, after voters in 1978 passed a famous anti-tax initiative called Proposition 13, money and power has shifted from schools, cities and counties to the state.
To prove that point, whose irony often eludes Californians, voters passed still more initiatives to restore the school spending whose tax financing they had cut.The main such measure, on the 1988 ballot, was called Proposition 98.
During the summer, a citywide coalition of artists, activists and nonprofit groups collected 30,000 signatures, 10,000 more than was required, to place an antidevelopment referendum called Proposition L on the November ballot.
