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List Of California Ballot Propositions
The following is a list of California ballot propositions broken down by decade. Propositions can be placed on the ballot either through the exercise of the Popular initiative, initiative power by the voters or by a vote of the State legislature (United States), state legislature. The state initiative power was added to the California constitution in 1911 as part of the ethics reform instituted by Governor Hiram Johnson in the early 1910s. By decade * List of California ballot propositions: 1880–1889, 1880–1889 * List of California ballot propositions: 1890–1899, 1890–1899 * List of California ballot propositions: 1900–1909, 1900–1909 * List of California ballot propositions: 1910–1919, 1910–1919 * List of California ballot propositions: 1920–1929, 1920–1929 * List of California ballot propositions: 1930–1939, 1930–1939 * List of California ballot propositions: 1940–1949, 1940–1949 * List of California ballot propositions: 1950–1959, 1950–1959 * ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Popular Initiative
A popular initiative (also citizens' initiative) is a form of direct democracy by which a petition meeting certain hurdles can force a legal procedure on a proposition. 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 the proposition to a referendum. The proposition may be on federal level law, statute, constitutional amendment, charter amendment, local ordinance, obligate the executive (government), executive or legislature to consider the subject by submitting it to the order of the day. In contrast, a popular referendum that allows voters only to repeal existing legislation. [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
2020–2029
The 2020s (pronounced "twenty-twenties" or "two thousand ndtwenties"; shortened to "the '20s" and also known as "The Twenties") is the current decade that began on 1 January 2020, and will end on 31 December 2029. The 2020s began with the COVID-19 pandemic. The first reports of the virus were published on 31 December 2019, though the first cases are said to have appeared nearly a month earlier. The pandemic led to a global economic recession, a sustained rise in global inflation for the first time since the 1970s, and a global supply chain crisis. The World Health Organization declared the virus a global state of emergency from March 2020 to May 2023. Several anti-government demonstrations and revolts occurred in the early 2020s, including a continuation of those in Hong Kong against extradition legislation; protests against certain local, state and national responses to the COVID-19 pandemic; others around the world, particularly in the United States, against racism ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
