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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. Popular initiative - Wikipedia

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    In direct initiative, the proposition is put directly to a plebiscite or referendum, also called a popular initiated referendum or citizen-initiated referendum. In an indirect initiative , the proposed measure is first referred to the legislature, and then if the proposed law is rejected by the legislature, the government may be forced to put ...

  4. Legislative referral - Wikipedia

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    A legislative referral (or legislative referendum) is a referendum in which a legislature puts proposed legislation up for popular vote. This may either be voluntarily or, as is the case in many countries for a constitutional amendment, as a mandatory part of the procedure for passing a law.

  5. Referendum - Wikipedia

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    A referendum, plebiscite, or ballot measure is a direct vote by the electorate (rather than their representatives) on a proposal, law, or political issue. [1] A referendum may be either binding (resulting in the adoption of a new policy ) or advisory (functioning like a large-scale opinion poll ).

  6. Op-Ed: Are changes needed to Idaho's initiative process? - AOL

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    One of the most important powers secured by Idaho’s constitution is the right of the people to reject and propose laws via a referendum or initiative. The initiative power is subject to ...

  7. Popular referendum - Wikipedia

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    A popular referendum, depending on jurisdiction also known as a citizens' veto, people's veto, veto referendum, citizen referendum, abrogative referendum, rejective referendum, suspensive referendum, and statute referendum, [1] [2] [3] is a type of a referendum that provides a means by which a petition signed by a certain minimum number of registered voters can force a public vote on an ...

  8. 2024 sees more bills passed to make initiative processes easier

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    In 2024, 326 bills related to initiative, referendum and recall were introduced in state legislatures and 33 of the bills were enacted (10.12%), including the four ballot measures to be decided on ...

  9. Referendums by country - Wikipedia

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    Before that date, in principle, there was no permanent provision in law for a referendum. However, from 2002 until 2005, there was a Temporary Referendum Law in place, which allowed for non-binding referendums, known in Dutch as Volksraadpleging ("People's Consultation"), to be organised for laws already approved by the House of Representatives ...