Oslo opted to stay out of the EU during a referendum in November 1994.
They agreed that the Second Chamber must be reformed, and during the second general election in 1910 some of them declared for the Referendum as a solution of the difficulty of deadlocks between the two Houses.
It was as near an approach to an ad hoc Referendum as we are ever likely to get under our present system.
The Statutory Referendum applies only to proposed statutes, while the Constitutional Referendum is limited to proposed amendments to the state constitution.
The effect of the Initiative and Referendum upon the character of the state legislature.
It is also maintained that the Initiative and Referendum do not promote independence of political thought, since only a mechanical "Yes" or "No" is demanded of the voters.
Critics of the Initiative and the Referendum maintain that Direct Legislation has many serious defects.
Extent to which the Initiative and the Referendum are found together in your state.
The Initiative and the Referendum are known collectively as Direct Legislation, that is, legislation directly by the people, as opposed to legislation enacted entirely through the legislature.
Of recent years about a third of the states, chiefly in the West, have extended the referendum device to cover ordinary legislation.
Name some states in which the Initiative and the Referendumhave been established.
Beard and Schultz, Documents on the State-wide Initiative, Referendum and Recall, chapters xxxi-xxxvi.
The Initiative, the Referendum and the Recall are methods of popular control which in many sections are spreading.
For the People may at all times, by the Referendum and the Initiative, control the Legislature.
His parliament was the legislature of the State, but he preserved the Referendum and the Initiative, and held them as his sovereign authority over the authority deputed to the legislature.
The mere existence of the Referendum has proved to be a check on legislation that might otherwise have been carried by parliamentary manoeuvring for votes.
With the two instruments of the Referendum and the Initiative in operation this danger is less likely, provided that the people be sufficiently alert.
And this is the plain and simple meaning of the two instruments of the Referendum and the Initiative.
With the wide franchise allowed in the Constitution, the tendency will be to play into the hands of political parties, and one of the purposes of the Referendum is to destroy the power of political parties.
It reveals a fear of the exercise of the Referendum that experience in other countries does not justify.
This direct voice has been exerted by means of two instruments known generally as the Referendum and the Initiative.
These reflections will help us to understand why the Australian Government has been led to hold a referendum of its Expeditionary Force in France.
As a general election would not afford a clear issue, Mr. Harrison advised that the Home Rule Bill should be submitted to a referendum at once.
He attacked the exclusion of Ulster, and objected that a Referendum would only produce a poll of 40 or 50 per cent.
Or let them take a referendum on Home Rule, and if the decision were adverse they could go on with their other measures under the Parliament Act.
Suppose the proposals accepted on a referendum of the United Kingdom, did the Unionist leaders hold that this would carry with it authority to coerce Ulster?
The Government could not accept a referendum or agree to any settlement that did not mean passing the Home Rule Bill.
A referendum would not produce a poll of 50 per cent.
On a Referendum it would be impossible to isolate the issue.
A small village in South Dakota applied the referendum to the question whether they should have a Methodist or a Congregational church.
In a similar referendum at Cornell the city students mentioned many reasons for choosing their life work in the country.
The procedure in connection with the popular referendum and initiative will be regulated by national law.
In addition to the provisions for referendum already referred to, the President can decree, within one month after its passage, that any law enacted by the Reichstag shall be referred to the people.
One-twentieth of the registered voters can require that a referendum be held on any Reichstag enactment against whose formal proclamation as law at least one-third of the Reichstag members shall have protested.
Enactments of the Reichstag can be declared invalid byreferendum only by the vote of a majority of a majority of all registered voters.
Its decision to hold such a referendum automatically inhibits the President from exercising any of the functions of his office.
If a smaller majority than two-thirds again votes in favor of the measure, the President may order a referendum within three months thereafter.
The Reichstag can prevent the holding of such a referendum only by adopting the proposed measure unchanged.
The National Cabinet orders a referendum on demand of one-third of the inhabitants qualified to vote for the National Assembly in the territory to be cut off.
Only the President can order that a referendum be held on the national budgets, customs and taxation, and salaries of officials and civil servants.
For the adoption of an amendment by referendum the affirmative vote of a majority of the registered voters is required.
The President has no power of veto over legislation, but he can order that any law be submitted to the people by referendum before it can go into effect.
It is the people themselves, however, to whom the supreme power is given, or, perhaps better expressed, who have reserved the supreme power for themselves by extensive provisions for referendumand initiative.
Third, the Democratic party is committed to the initiative and referendum but not to woman suffrage.
The President has endorsed the initiative and referendum and has fully convinced himself of its merit.
Any State which proceeds to a referendum campaign without securing this consent shall be prepared to finance its own campaign without help from the National Board.
That the policy of the association in regard to referendumcampaigns be affirmed.
The amendment merely provides for the Initiative and Referendum in the States.
The attempt to have a referendum to the voters has been referred to.
The Initiative and Referendum scheme will have its own enemies, who will fear that this way may be an entering wedge for more Initiative and Referendum amendments to be pushed into State constitutions.
In the meantime the opponents had succeeded in Maine under its Initiative andReferendum law in having the ratification submitted to the voters and they threatened to take this action in all States having this law.
A resolution was adopted regarding action in case of a referendum to the voters of ratification by a Legislature but later the U.
California adopted the initiative and referendum at the same time with woman suffrage.
In this, then, he may be overruled by the referendum without being humiliated or required to resign his office.
Munro, The Initiative, Referendum and Recall; The Government of American Cities, p.
How could you include in this referendum the hundreds of thousands of Alsatians who have fled from German domination?
The referendum was also rendered by Alsatians who, before this war, engaged themselves in the French Army, and became officers.
What betterreferendum could you wish than such an admission by a German statesman?
How could you exclude from this referendum the hundreds of thousands of Germans who have come to Alsace?
The doctrine that the people itself governs directly through obedient agents--the doctrine of mandate and plebiscite, of referendum and initiative--is not the doctrine of the best English Socialism.
The initiative and referendum in local matters has been made possible under a state law, and has been several times exercised in important questions.
Some states have the referendum and initiative power of helping to make laws.
Referendum means referring a law passed by the legislature back to the voters for their approval or disapproval.
The object of the initiative and the referendum is to compel legislative bodies to act and respect the will of the people whom they represent.
When the question of the initiative and referendum arose in Oregon, his attitude was the reverse of what it had been as professor of politics.
The question of "State Wide Prohibition" will be submitted to a referendum vote of the people of the state in 1914.
In 1912 there was a Swiss referendum on the subject of the new Insurance law against sickness and accidents.
If this Referendum does not give them approval they lapse.
We have found from our experience covering a year's work that the subjects that have been most used are as follows: Initiative and referendum Recall Woman suffrage Immigration Direct election of U.
I believe that we are upon the eve of recovering some of the most important prerogatives of a free people, and that the initiative and referendum are playing a great part in that recovery.
Why do you suppose that in the United States, the place in all the world where the people were invited to control their own government, we should set up such an agitation as that for the initiative and referendum and the recall.
The initiative and referendum and the recall afford such a key to our own premises.
I met a man the other day who thought that the referendum was some kind of an animal, because it had a Latin name; and there are still people in this country who have to have it explained to them.
The referendum is a means of seeing to it that the unrepresentative measures which they do not want shall not be placed upon the statute book.
