The legislative session that begins Monday should not be held, and lawmakers should reject all of Ron DeSantis’ demands. But ...

The guiding principle is that “direct democracy” – which also allows existing laws to be challenged through referendum, as ...

By working to improve democratic education and to put a system in place that listens to and engages with young people, ...

Direct democracy – or legislating through the ballot – has been baked into the Golden State’s political system for well over a century, allowing voters to legislate and amend the ...

For as long as we’ve had democracies, majority rule has left some in the minority worse off. We need to be talking about what ...

A House committee gave its stamp of approval Wednesday to a bill that would enhance the Arkansas attorney general’s authority ...

I love the fact that South Dakota was the first state in the nation to empower its citizens to initiate and refer laws, columnist Terry Woster writes.

Yellow strips of paper — 215 of them to be exact — were quickly sorted into piles for yes and no on the stage floor of ...

Imagine waking up one morning to find that your fundamental right to influence state policy through citizen-led initiatives has been effectively nullified. This ...

Legislators have been more successful curtailing the process with statutory changes in Pierre. From 2018 to 2024, South ...