Word: referendum
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...good. The employee can now collect fair damages from his employer; in civil procedure the defendant must now convince one-fourth of the jury that he is innocent; judicial decisions cannot be reversed for trivial errors; railroads are kept in control by the club of the initiative and referendum; state officers are made to do their duties by the recall, stationed as a guard over them; a larger percentage of intelligent voters has come forward to run the government with wisdom; experts are planning and arguing the new steps in state affairs; and the responsibility for the government is where...
...Howe considered the power given to the people of the cities to choose their own forms of government the most important of the municipal reforms effected in Oregon. They too have the initiative, referendum, and the recall. Each city can control its own license policy and, as they have not been extremists, they make changes for or against prohibition only as they understand what their needs...
Professor L. J. Johnson '87 will deliver a lecture in Emerson J at 4.30 o'clock this afternoon on, "The American City Charter up to Date." Direct nominations, the short ballot, preferential voting, the initiative, the referendum, and the recall will be discussed as means to secure the control of a city by its inhabitants. There will also be a mock election as an object lesson in preferential voting. The lecture is open to the public...