Missourians on Tuesday approved some of the strongest direct democracy rules in the nation, amending the state constitution ...
Direct democracy can force governments to better represent the people—but it doesn't always work out
In August 2022, a statewide referendum in Kansas saw citizens overwhelmingly reject a plan to insert anti-abortion language into the state's constitution. It comes as a slew of similar votes on ...
Direct democracy has come to the forefront of the abortion debate. Since Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization, the seismic Supreme Court decision overruling Roe v. Wade and Casey v. Planned ...
A historic vote that legalized abortion rights. The expansion of legal marijuana and sports betting. Increases to the state’s minimum wage and limits on tax increases. For more than a century, voters ...
Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The Missouri Constitution is the people's constitution. Every word of it has been approved by a simple majority statewide vote.
North Dakota State Representative Brandon Prichard set off alarms among lovers of democracy when he declared that the Issue One Vote in Ohio should be ignored. Ohio voters enshrined into the state ...
First of all, direct democracy, the democratic regime I’m thinking about, is not paradise on earth. It’s not the perfect regime, and I don’t know what perfect regime means. Cornelius Castoriadis [1] ...
Our California ballot-measure reporter heads to Switzerland on the 150th anniversary of its first federal referendum to see what a state mad about direct democracy can take away from the country that ...
Early this month, Ohioans delivered a resounding victory for both reproductive rights and democracy. Voters handily rejected Issue 1, a bad-faith effort to limit voters’ right to propose and enact ...
Progressive issues are winning at the ballot level in states controlled by conservatives. And it’s been happening steadily since 2016. In response, conservative legislators have significantly ...
Once again, Republicans in the Missouri legislature have shown that they have no respect for the voters in Missouri, or democracy. An article in the News-Leader on Sept. 9 detailed how they are ...
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