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Granting women the constitutional right to vote in California. Proposition 7 (1911) Passed: Establishing the constitutional direct democracy powers of initiative and referendum in California. Proposition 8 (1911) Passed: Establishing the constitutional direct democracy power of recall in California. Proposition 14 (1964)
In California, a ballot proposition is a referendum or an initiative measure that is submitted to the electorate for a direct decision or direct vote (or plebiscite). If passed, it can alter one or more of the articles of the Constitution of California , one or more of the 29 California Codes , or another law in the California Statutes by ...
4 – Passed – University of California. Competitive Bidding. Grounds for Denial of Admission. 5 – Failed – Interest Rates Allowable. 6 – Failed – Bills and Statutes-Effective Date. Governor's Consideration. Referendum. 7 – Passed – Judges. Censure, Removal, Judicial Performance Commission.
The Mulford Act was a 1967 California bill that prohibited public carrying of loaded firearms without a permit. [2] Named after Republican assemblyman Don Mulford and signed into law by governor of California Ronald Reagan, the bill was crafted with the goal of disarming members of the Black Panther Party, which was conducting armed patrols of Oakland neighborhoods in what would later be ...
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Reitman v. Mulkey, 387 U.S. 369 (1967), was a United States Supreme Court decision that set an important legal precedent that held that a state could not authorize invidious discrimination by private landlords without entangling itself in the ensuing discriminatory private decisions.
California Proposition 14 was a November 1964 initiative ballot measure that amended the California state constitution to nullify the 1963 Rumford Fair Housing Act, thereby allowing property sellers, landlords and their agents to openly discriminate on ethnic grounds when selling or letting accommodations, as they had been permitted to before 1963.
Called Popular referendum, or alternatively Veto Referendum, Citizen referendum, Statute referendum, Statute remand, People's veto, or Citizen's veto, in which a predetermined number of signatures (typically lower than the number required for an initiative) qualifies a ballot measure for voting on repealing or not a specific state law. 23 ...