Word: referendum
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...parts. But it could, he insisted, be just as strong as succeeding generations want to make it. "A real democracy," he said, "cannot be merely formalized. It requires moral and material elevation and true citizenship." To help build that citizenship, Franco decided to submit the constitution to a public referendum Dec. 14 rather than simply decree it. In the referendum, Spain's second in 30 years, all Spaniards over 21 will vote. After almost certain approval, the new constitution will go into effect immediately. Additional laws that translate its broad principles into actual specifics will be introduced...
...most places, the town-meeting style of democracy has long since gone the way of the cucking stool. Its heritage is the referendum, an instant, pain less substitute that leaves discussion of controversial issues to the press and their resolution to the curtained conscience of the voter. Sometimes the issues attract as much attention as the candidates, but more often they are so trivial-or so confusing-that they should never have been put on the ballot at all. Last week's election had a few of both kinds...
...Madrid buzzed with the ru mor that Francisco Franco was about to give his nation a new constitution at last. This week Franco will call an extraordinary session of the Cortes which, later this month, will accept a new "institutional law" and put it to the people in a referendum before year...
...more time talking about tiny French Somaliland than any other foreign topic. Street rioting for independence greeted him in Djibouti on his visit last August, and the memory still rankles. De Gaulle announced that the Somalis will be given their independence if they opt for it in a forthcoming referendum. If they do, they will be sorry, for France will pull out entirely, and "certainly not engage its resources and its troops to support the appearance of a state"-which is at least brutally consistent with his views about the U.S. role in Viet...
Forty-three per cent of Radcliffe responded to a draft referendum distributed last Monday by the Radcliffe Government Association. The poll was the same as the one taken two weeks ago by the Harvard Undergraduate Council. The HUC poll also received a 43 per cent response...