Word: referendum
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Three Cambridge City Councillors will ask the Council today to place an "opinion referendum" on rent control on the November 4 election ballot. The referendum would enact no law but would permit people to vote on the concept of rent control...
...action follows a court ruling last week which denied a request by the Cambridge Peace and Freedom party for a rent control referendum. The court ruled that a rent control law would be unconstitutional if passed and therefore could not be placed on the ballot. The Massachusetts State Constitution states that the legislature must give permission before a city can enact rent control...
...doing so, he managed to increase white resentment and fears. The first test came in 1966 when he tried to organize a civilian review board to hear complaints of police brutality. Lindsay was cast in the role of a softie trying to shackle honest cops; the review-board referendum was defeated. A less stubborn, less
...lawyers further argued that the election commission has no right to decide the legality of an issue but should merely perform the "ministerial" function of checking to find if all requirements for a referendum have been fulfilled...
...election commission's decision was based on an opinion by Cronin, who presented the case against a referendum at the Superior Court hearing...