Tim Eyman
... agree with. Initiatives Eyman launched his first initiative, Initiative 200, in 1997, which attempted to prohibit ... difficulty collecting enough signatures to place the initiative on the ballot (8% of the votes ... John Carlson. After Carlson took over, the initiative received enough signatures to earn placement on ... In November of 1998, voters approved the initiative. Also in 1998, Eyman tried to ...
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Talk:Direct democracy/New version
... used in 49 states, excepting only Delaware -- Initiative & Referendum Institute, 2004). Referrals by the legislature ... laws (constitutionally used in all 50 states -- Initiative & Referendum Institute, 2004). Constitutional amendment initiative. This is the most powerful people-initiated ... three main types of the constitutional amendment initiative, with different degrees of involvement of the ... 1993, and Zimmerman, December 1999). Statute law initiative. This is a constitutionally-defined, people- ...
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List of California ballot propositions 2000-present
... Amendment. 18 - Passed - Murder: Special Circumstances. Legislative Initiative Amendment. 19 - Passed - Murder. BART and CSU Peace Officers. Legislative Initiative Amendment. 20 - Passed - California State Lottery. Allocation for Instructional Materials. Legislative Initiative Amendment. 21 - Passed - Juvenile Crime. Initiative Statute. 22 - Passed - Limit on Marriages. Initiative Statute. 23 - Failed - 'None of the ...
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California ballot proposition
... constitution or California statutory law, under the initiative and referendum process. In the state of ... legislation or constitutional amendments is called the Initiative. The process of the state legislature proposing ... the general public may propose via the initiative, either amendments to the State Constitution or ... this was $200), and obtaining signatures on petitions from registered voters amounting to 8% (for ... most recent election for governor. The signed petitions are then sent to the state' ...
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Greek constitution
... laws of the State, to address written petitions to authorities, and said authorities must promptly ... such indemnification, and in the case of petitions for the final determination thereof from the ... any matter either orally or in writing. Petitions may be presented through a deputy or ... Parliament shall have the right to forward petitions addressed to it to the ministers and ... V Legislative Function of Parliament Article 73 [Initiative] (1) The right of proposing laws ...
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Evan Mecham
... office 180 days before they could circulate petitions and a number of signatures equal to ... the recall committee turned in 32,401 petitions containing 388,988 signatures (more than the ... Secretary of State's office received the petitions, Mecham refused to waive verification of the signatures, forcing the petitions to be sent to the counties for ... was moved to Pasadena, California. Another ballot initiative in 1992 succeeding in creation of ...
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Petition   (translated from German)
... parliaments become at the respective Committee on petitions passed on, that it examines and answers ... a form for InterNet with Committee on petitions to submit the German Bundestag. In the ... is inadmissible) Article 45c GG - committee on petitions of the federal daily In Bavaria parallel ... earlier 19. Century soon thereafter around obligatory Initiative and obligatory Referendum extended. Characteristic: The input ... parlament/gremien15/a02/index.HTML - committee on petitions of the German federal daily (treatment ...
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Constitution of Hungary
... may order a national referendum upon the initiative by the President of the Republic, the ... citizens are required for a national popular initiative. A national popular initiative may be for the purpose of forcing ... the subject defined by the national popular initiative. Article 28/E. In order to call ... months in the case of a civic initiative, and for a period of two ...
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Petition
... right to file lawsuits against the government. Petitions are commonly used in the U.S ... number of voter signatures qualilfies a proposed initiative to be placed on the ballot. The ... was obtained on the recall petition, other petitions were circulated by would-be candidates who ... the recall was scheduled. Other types of petitions have included those which sought to free ... former apartheid government of South Africa. The petitions had no legal effect, but the ...
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Lyndon LaRouche   (translated from Italian)
... the applications laser of Strategic the Defensive Initiative (defended ballistic missile, SDI). For System LaRouche ... 1986 LaRouche California Proposition 64 launch, an initiative in California that would have replaced the ... As a result of its failure, the initiative came introduced two years after, but it ... order To save the President" who introduced petitions on national scale against the dimissioni or ... the Bank of the International Development, the Initiative for the Strategic Defense or "Star ...
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