Initiatives and referendums are a critical way for ordinary Americans to have a voice in making the laws under which they live. Yet rather than listening to voters, too many legislators are trying to stop them from speaking. Over the last decade, state legislatures have proposed 15 constitutional amendments restricting initiatives and referendums, and more than 70 since 1960, according to a new historical study I conducted. Chipping away at citizen lawmaking feeds the simmering populist sentiment in American politics that government is run by a narrow group of elites who are trying to subvert democracy. The story of Ohio’s Issue 1 is a good illustration of what has become a recurren
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