The reasons for this go back to the legacy of the 1789 revolution, and to the 19th-century philosopher Ernest Renan's definition of French citizenship as "a daily plebiscite", meaning the decision to live together and be equal.
A spokesman for the Tasmanian crossbench senator Jacqui Lambie has said her support for the plebiscite is conditional on it being run together with plebiscite questions on Indigenous recognition and euthanasia.
In his 1882 lecture "What is a Nation?", Ernest Renan argued that the question was a "daily plebiscite" for citizens; that every nation is held together by a "forgetfulness" of the brutality out of which it was born.
Framing the contest as a de facto plebiscite on independence, Mas led the Junts pel Sí ("Together for Yes") alliance that won 62 of the 135 seats in the Catalan parliament.
If the people of Scotland, London, or even a local parish council, wish to decide how they want to live together, then trading regulations, perhaps subject to plebiscite (as in parts of America), is surely one.
FC Kaiserslautern, originating in parts from a game in 1973, when Bayern lost 7 4 after leading 4 1, but also from the two clubs competing for German championship honours at various times in the Bundesliga as well as the city of Kaiserslautern together with the surrounding Palatinate having been part of Bavaria until a plebiscite after the end of the Second World War.
If it wins, Together for Yes plans to lay the groundwork for secession and hold the plebiscite Madrid has prohibited.
The plebiscite is not just an expensive opinion poll – it is a mechanism to hold the Liberal party together through the most dangerous internal issue since the civil war over Turnbull's support for Labor's proposed ETS in 2009.
"Now that the plebiscite legislation is dead, we again call marriage equality supporters across all political parties to work together to find a pathway," said Alex Greenwich, co-chair of rights group Australian Marriage Equality.
A match that had appeared set up for a plebiscite, with 68% of supporters in one poll saying that Luis Enrique should be sacked, brought them back together.
