Over 110,000,000 Americans in 24 of the 50 states have the right of Initiative. Most of them have had it for 80 years. TEXANS DO NOT. Legislators deny this right to Texans.

States with Initiative rights

California

Colorado

• Are Coloradans Fit to Make Their Own Laws?
  -- by Dennis Polhill
• Believers in Free Speech win a Big One

Florida

Legislative Process is Broken - The Miami Herald

Florida AG Abuses Single-Subject Rule - FloridaTimes-Union

South Dakota

Washington

• Tax Limitiation - Initiatve 601

Other States with

States fighting to get Initiative

• Power to the People -- by Jacquelyn Hart Harrison
• Louisiana Governor Foster wants Initiative Rights for Louisianans
• New York Governor Pataki Proposes
  Limited Form of Initiative and Referendum
• An Attempt to Educate the New York Times on I&R
  -- by M. Dane Waters
• Status Quo Defenders Attack Voter Initiative Bill
• Virginians Want Initiative and Referendum

Other Countries

• Switzerland -- Safe and Serene -- by Joseph Perkins
• United Kingdom -- Referendum Movement

"There are those occasions under our form of government when the interests of the represented and the interests of the representatives are at odds. I & R are the means by which the represented assure that their interests ultimately prevail."
John Talley of Longview, Texas

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