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  2. Initiatives and referendums in the United States - Wikipedia

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    Initiatives and referendums—collectively known as "ballot measures", "propositions", or simply "questions"—differ from most legislation passed by representative democracies; ordinarily, an elected legislative body develops and passes laws. Initiatives and referendums, by contrast, allow citizens to vote directly on legislation.

  3. Initiative - Wikipedia

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    Initiative Q, an alternative payment network; The Initiative (Tunisia) – a political party; The Hawkeye Initiative, a tumblr page that features comic book character Hawkeye in various poses held by female comic book characters; The Initiative (company), a video game development company based in Santa Monica; One Watt Initiative, energy-saving ...

  4. Popular initiative - Wikipedia

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    A popular initiative (also citizens' initiative) is a form of direct democracy by which a petition meeting certain hurdles can force a legal procedure on a proposition. In direct initiative , the proposition is put directly to a plebiscite or referendum , also called a popular initiated referendum or citizen-initiated referendum .

  5. Direct democracy - Wikipedia

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    Simple English; SlovenĨina; ... Constitutional amendment initiative is a constitutionally defined petition process of "proposed constitutional law", which, if ...

  6. Referendum - Wikipedia

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    Popular initiative or Initiative referendum: A citizen-led process to propose and vote on new laws. Popular referendum: A citizen-led process to oppose and strike down existing laws. Recall referendum: A procedure to remove elected officials before the end of their term of office. Depending on the area and position, a recall may be for a ...

  7. 2024 United States ballot measures - Wikipedia

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    Initiative to the Legislature: Initiative 2117: would repeal the passage of the 2021 Washington Climate Commitment Act (CCA), which created a maximum legal amount of carbon emissions for the state and requires companies with emissions exceeding 25,000 metric tons of carbon dioxide per year to pay a tax commiserate to the amount of carbon ...

  8. National initiative - Wikipedia

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    The National Initiative for Democracy (NI4D) is a proposed constitutional amendment (Democracy Amendment) which recognizes the people's right to make laws at the local, state and federal level of every jurisdiction in the country and a federal law (Democracy Act) which spells out orderly procedures for the people to develop and vote on laws.

  9. Right of initiative (legislative) - Wikipedia

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    The right of (legislative) initiative is the constitutionally defined power to propose a new law in a legislature. The right of initiative is usually given to both the government (executive) and individual legislators .