Sentence examples for proposition or referendum from inspiring English sources

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"It is the lack of a proposition or referendum," the Rev. Samuel Rodriguez, president of the National Hispanic Christian Leadership Conference, said.

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Mr. Greene said he had never heard of the same-sex-marriage debate or Proposition 8, the referendum that outlawed such marriages.

Dennis Peron, co-author of the Proposition 215 referendum that legalized medical marijuana, said that those in the business know their activities are being monitored.

US district judge Vaughn Walker ruled that the ban on gay and lesbian marriage imposed by the Proposition 8 referendum in 2008 – when it was backed by 52% of California's voters – violated the right to equal protection under the US Constitution.

Like the Proposition 13 Referendum in California -- a voter rebellion against escalating school costs that radically changed the way education is financed there -- I sought, in my small way, to send a message to our school board to rein in the unrelenting increases.

In 2008 the California supreme court overturned the ban on same-sex marriage on the grounds that it violated the right to equality under the state constitution, in turn prompting the famous Proposition 8 referendum just six months later in which 52% of voters agreed to change the Californian constitution to ban gay marriage once again.

The harsh reality of disenfranchisement has already been felt in Arizona, with its sweeping proof-of-citizenship registration requirement passed as part of the anti-immigrant Proposition 200 referendum in 2004.

C is an arbitrary proposition or factor.

The most straightforward is Proposition 67, a referendum asking voters to either vote yes to preserve the law or no to reject the statute, which bans disposable plastic bags and lets grocers charge customers 10 cents for paper bags or more durable reusable plastic bags. .

A statewide ballot proposition, Referendum C, approved by about 52percentt of the voters, will allow state government to keep a projected $3.7 billion over the next five years.

Proposition 8, the referendum that ended same-sex marriage in California in 2008, is not officially on the ballot again this Election Day.

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