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this post was submitted on 02 Sep 2023
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Colorado did a state amendment by referendum to actually ban slavery, but when a prisoner went to court to stop his slavery, the judge said the people obviously did not mean to ban slavery when they voted to ban slavery.
The text of Amendment A which the voters voted on was:
"Sorry, I'm gonna have to drop the facade for this one but you're not allowed to ACTUALLY do that..."
I remember following this in a few states that had this type of thing on the ballot.
In general, I think referendum voting is more legitimate than representative voting, but there's no accounting for the judiciary just deciding it doesn't matter.
Amen to that. Whenever a corporation wants to dump their waste directly into waterways and the like, it's remarkable how little all the town halls, protests, and votes can do.
There is. I'm not at liberty to disclose the mechanisms through this medium, but you can account for it.