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  2. Partition and secession in California - Wikipedia

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    There are 58 counties of California currently.. California, the most populous state in the United States and third largest in area after Alaska and Texas, has been the subject of more than 220 proposals to divide it into multiple states since its admission to the Union in 1850, [1] including at least 27 significant proposals prior to the 21st century.

  3. Constitution of California - Wikipedia

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    The Constitution of California is among the longest in the world. [4] This is predominantly due to additions by California ballot propositions, which allow enacting amendments by a simple majority vote in a referendum. Since its enactment, the California constitution has been amended an average of five times each year. [5]

  4. List of state partition proposals in the United States

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    1855 J. H. Colton Company map of Virginia that predates the West Virginia partition by seven years.. Numerous state partition proposals have been put forward since the 1776 establishment of the United States that would partition an existing U.S. state or states so that a particular region might either join another state or create a new state.

  5. California Statutes - Wikipedia

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    California Statutes (formally titled Statutes and Amendments to the Codes) California Statutes (Cal. Stats., also cited as Stats. within the state) are the acts of the California State Legislature as approved according to the California Constitution and collated by the Secretary of State of California.

  6. In 1964, white Californians overwhelmingly voted to make segregation a part of the state's Constitution with the passage of Prop 14. How the L.A. Times helped write segregation into California's ...

  7. Law of California - Wikipedia

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    Pursuant to the state constitution, the California State Legislature and the Governor have enacted the California Statutes, which in turn have been codified into the 29 California Codes. The first four codes, enacted in 1872, were the Civil Code, the Code of Civil Procedure, the Penal Code, and the Political Code (which much later would become ...

  8. Why it's been so hard to kill Article 34, California's ... - AOL

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    The article is a provision of California's state Constitution that requires voter approval before public housing is built in a community. At the time it passed in 1950, the real estate industry ...

  9. List of U.S. state constitutional provisions allowing self ...

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    Gen. Statute § 1-11 (1996) "A party may appear either in person or by attorney in actions or proceedings in which he is interested." [1] North Carolina: North Carolina Judicial Code Canon III a 4 "A judge shall accord to every person who has a legal interest in a proceeding, or that person's lawyer, full right to be heard according to law" [37]