Word: vetoing
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...wish to bring the people into closer touch with their government. The initiative allows the people to propose any measure which the legislature refuses to pass for them. The referendum allows the people to veto any undesirable legislation. Our legislatures no longer represent the people but the trusts who have obtained great power. The initiative and referendum will put an end to the inefficiency of the legislature. The initiative and referendum are intended to supplement the legislature and not to supplant it. We would urge the adoption of the initiative and referendum even where inefficiency and corruption is not rife...
...every country the government has drawn closer to the people. In Russia, the Duma has been set up; in China, a constitutional government has been started with an organic law and a senate; in Turkey, the same step has been taken; in England, the Budget was passed over the veto of the House of Lords; and in this country, the overthrow of Cannonism by progressive Republicans and progressive Democrats has been a triumph for democracy...