However, your reference to the referendum as a tool of direct democracy underscored the paternalistic tone of your report.Legislating by referendum is not direct democracy, but rather a device used by a representative government to submit a measure to the electorate for an up-or-down vote.
Late last month, supporters submitted a ballot measure to the state's attorney general, hoping to see a vote on this so-called Calexit in 2018.
One month after a group led by prominent Republicans submitted a ballot measure to change the rules of the Legislature, Democrats in the state Capitol are now pushing for lawmakers to tackle the issue themselves.
Although the Orange County lawyer who submitted a proposed ballot measure calling for the killing of gay people appears to have gone underground, hundreds of his former classmates have stepped forward to denounce him.
In recent weeks, the Marijuana Policy Project (MPP), a legalization advocacy group, submitted a bid to get a measure on the ballot that would tax and regulate the drug in Arizona like alcohol, the Phoenix New Times reported.
Kelman claims he doesn't know much about it yet, saying the company submitted a filing as a precautionary measure.
Supporters of a plan for California to secede from the union took their first formal step Monday morning, submitting a proposed ballot measure to the state attorney general's office in the hopes of a statewide vote as soon as 2018.
Each participating nation is obliged to submit a set of measures it is ready to take, known as "intended nationally determined contributions," or INDCs, aimed at achieving the overall goal of preventing planetary warming from exceeding 2 degrees Celsius.
State law requires that any group spending more than $200 on a ballot measure must submit a campaign finance report.
To assess self-reported colorectal cancer testing, the combination of two measures (either submitting a kit for fecal occult blood testing or undergoing a sigmoidoscopy or colonoscopy in the past year) was used.
