The optional referendum is a referendum which comes from a request by governmental authorities or the public. The best known types of optional referendums...

United States in the 1930s as the Ludlow Amendment. An optional referendum is a class of referendums that is put to the vote as a result of a demand. This...

referendums (part of the Constitution of California since 1856), optional referendums, and initiatives.[citation needed] The initiative and optional (or...

designated standard term of office. Mandatory referendums correspond to majority rule while optional referendums and popular initiatives correspond to consensus...

contrast to an optional referendum, which comes from either by public or legislative request. The actions that require mandatory referendums are set by law...

mandatory referendums. This type of referendum is utilized after an item has been passed by parliament and is then put to a vote. In contrast, an optional referendum...

popular referendum, depending on jurisdiction also known as a citizens' veto, people's veto, veto referendum, citizen referendum, abrogative referendum, rejective...

constitution, a referendum is mandatory (mandatory referendum); for any change in a law, a referendum can be requested (optional referendum). In addition...

initiative (Switzerland) Referendums in France Optional referendum Recall election Politics portal France portal "Référendum d'initiative citoyenne :...

National referendums are seldom used in Canada. The first two referendums in 1898 and 1942 saw a large number of voters in Quebec and in the remainder...

Republic of Türkiye in 1923, the country held seven referendums on national level. In the first two referendums (1961 and 1982), new Constitutions were submitted...

health has changed, and the law needed to be adapted accordingly. An optional referendum against this revision was initiated by the EDU, the Citizens for...

Assembly) Mandatory referendums (votation on a modification of the constitution made by the Federal Assembly) Optional referendums (referendum on a law accepted...

been held as of 2017. Unlike in constitutional referendums, voting in previous plebiscites has been optional. In 1998, the Howard government amended the...

process of initiatives and referendums allow citizens of many U.S. states to place legislation on the ballot for a referendum or popular vote, either enacting...

legislative popular initiative in 1846. Berne introduced the legislative optional referendum in the same year. The political crisis of the Regeneration period...

An independence referendum is a type of referendum in which the residents of a territory decide whether the territory should become an independent sovereign...

put directly to a plebiscite or referendum, also called a popular initiated referendum or citizen-initiated referendum. In an indirect initiative, the...

when a referendum is held, but it is a legal procedure regulated by the Swiss constitution. There are two types of referendums: Optional referendum: Any...

valid signatures on a petition to get on the ballot; facultative or optional referendums, which are citizen proposals to approve or reject a piece of existing...

valid signatures on a petition to get on the ballot; facultative or optional referendums, which are citizen proposals to approve or reject a piece of existing...

Referendums in the United Kingdom are occasionally held at a national, regional or local level. Historically, national referendums are rare due to the...

Bilateral EU Agreements / 40-tonne Trucks / Heavy Traffic Fee (optional referendum): As part of a whole package of several bilateral agreements with...

consensus democracy where majority rule does not play a central role. Optional referendums and popular initiatives correspond to consensus democracy. Consensus...

referendum, recall petition or representative recall) is a procedure by which voters can remove an elected official from office through a referendum before...

can be subjected to a financial referendum. The financial referendum may be either optional or mandatory. In its optional form a specified number of signatures...

adopted the referendum for municipal governments within its boundaries in 1897. South Dakota was the first state to adopt the referendum, in 1898, patterning...

This is a list of referendums related to the European Union, or referendums related to the European Communities, which were predecessors of the European...

A referendum, in the Italian legal system is a request directed to the whole electorate to express their view on a determined question. It is the main...

A war referendum is a proposed type of referendum in which citizens would decide whether a nation should go to war. No such referendum has ever taken place...