Word: referendum
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Oregon was so sold on abolition once more that the idea won the full support of the state's leading clergymen, newspapers, politicians, law-enforcement officers and finally the voters, who killed the death penalty (gas chamber) by nearly 5 to 3 in a referendum last November. Multnomah County (Portland) District Attorney George Van Hoomissen summed up Oregon's attitude: "The specter of an innocent man unjustly executed is constantly in my mind...
Beltrán's proposal got a cool reception from Uruguayan politicians, who still believe that nine heads are better than one. Nevertheless, he intends to present his proposal as a referendum to Uruguay's 2,556,000 people in next year's election...
...Committee of the Radcliffe Government Association has distributed to all Radcliffe students a questionnaire concerning political action in the name of RGA. This action would include supportive action in the form of letters, telegrams, and SNCC fasts. However, the questionnaire is limited to the procedural alternatives of requiring a referendum for action each time or permitting RGA to implement action, subject only to standard operating procedures (a referendum if twenty-five people object). That is, the questionnaire considers "when" and "how" action should be taken, completely ignoring...
These limitations on RGA are reasonable, in the light of its mandatory membership. A political group states its views and individuals are free to join or not. Only as absolutely unanimous college referendum might empower RGA to make a political statement or to support a political cause. And if a statement were to be made in the name of "the majority of RGA," the public would ignore the qualification, and identify the statement with "Radcliffe." Many students who would object to mandatory membership in the Young Democrats or Young Republicans would see no objection to mandatory support of civil rights...
...power to act on other, comparable ones. If it can take a stand on civil rights beyond the legal position, it can take a stand on other politics. For instance, given such power, RGA could have formally supported Johnson over Goldwater in the last election by a referendum or RGA vote...