Supporters of an Ohio constitutional amendment guaranteeing abortion access cheer its passage at a watch party in Columbus on Nov. 7, 2023. The state’s voters also defeated a legislatively ...

Some thoughts on the desirable amount of democracy, the dangers of centralized political authority, and the inability of socialism to generate wealth, among other things: ...

For instance, Smith’s call to scrap the net-zero power regulations and the No More Pipelines law reflects a desire for greater autonomy in Alberta’s resource management. By invoking the prospect of a ...

A Senate bill moving forward would put more barriers in the way of residents wanting to bypass the Legislature with an initiative petition ...

Instead, direct democracy would be attainable only to a cadre of for-profit political operations with deep pockets and greater capacity to wade through additional red tape. These bills aim to ...

The guiding principle is that “direct democracy” – which also allows existing laws to be challenged through referendum, as seen with the carbon pipeline debate in 2024 – provides a check ...

There’s a reason politicians don’t like direct democracy and why there will never be a referendum on big national debates.

The amendment would undo many of the anti-democracy measures passed by legislators in recent years and prevent them from ...

Democrats and voting rights groups fight those measures, saying they limit access to the ballot and cripple direct democracy, something that has existed in Florida since 1886 — the year Thomas ...

Tuesday, a proposed constitutional amendment was submitted to the Arkansas Attorney General to streamline the state's ...