The Oregon System; The Story of Direct Legislation in Oregon Apresentation of the Methods and Results of the Initiative and Referendum, and Recall, in Oregon, with Studies of the Measures Accepted or Rejected, and Special Chapters on the Direct Primary, Popula (Paperback)


Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: CHAPTER II THE INITIATIVE AND REFERENDUM DEFINED THE Initiative and the Referendum are methods used by the people to make laws, or to veto laws which have been made by their Legislature. By the Initiative any voter can, by presenting the proper petition to the Secretary of State, get any measure he desires placed upon the ballot for decision. By the Referendum, any one can, by presenting the proper petition to the Secretary of State, have a measure which has been passed by the Legislature placed upon the ballot for final decision. Thus any one in Oregon can either initiate a measure or have one referred, the only requirement being that he secure sufficient signatures to a petition addressed to the Secretary of State. The Legislature may, by a joint resolution, submit any measure to the people for their decision.. This phase of the Initiative, or as it is more often classified the Referendum, is not new but is one which the Legislature has employed since Oregon became a state, except that only constitutional amendments were proposed in this way, and then only after the resolution had passed two consecutive sessions of theLegislature. Under the present plan the Legislature may submit a constitutional or a statutory measure, provided it passes both houses by a two-thirds vote. The feature of the system which is both new and revolutionary, is that now the Initiative and the Referendum are employed directly by the people. 'The fate of a measure, whether initiated or referred, is determined noLbxa majorityofjthe voters of the state, but by a majority of those who vote on the particular measure; in fact a number of measures have become laws when less than forty per cent. of the voters supported them. This provision applies not only to statutory bills but to constitutional ame...

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Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: CHAPTER II THE INITIATIVE AND REFERENDUM DEFINED THE Initiative and the Referendum are methods used by the people to make laws, or to veto laws which have been made by their Legislature. By the Initiative any voter can, by presenting the proper petition to the Secretary of State, get any measure he desires placed upon the ballot for decision. By the Referendum, any one can, by presenting the proper petition to the Secretary of State, have a measure which has been passed by the Legislature placed upon the ballot for final decision. Thus any one in Oregon can either initiate a measure or have one referred, the only requirement being that he secure sufficient signatures to a petition addressed to the Secretary of State. The Legislature may, by a joint resolution, submit any measure to the people for their decision.. This phase of the Initiative, or as it is more often classified the Referendum, is not new but is one which the Legislature has employed since Oregon became a state, except that only constitutional amendments were proposed in this way, and then only after the resolution had passed two consecutive sessions of theLegislature. Under the present plan the Legislature may submit a constitutional or a statutory measure, provided it passes both houses by a two-thirds vote. The feature of the system which is both new and revolutionary, is that now the Initiative and the Referendum are employed directly by the people. 'The fate of a measure, whether initiated or referred, is determined noLbxa majorityofjthe voters of the state, but by a majority of those who vote on the particular measure; in fact a number of measures have become laws when less than forty per cent. of the voters supported them. This provision applies not only to statutory bills but to constitutional ame...

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2012

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2012

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44

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978-0-217-36217-7

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9780217362177

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