Direct democracy in some form — through citizen ... State constitutions have celebrated popular influence on government in contrast to the U.S. Constitution, which was designed to limit that ...

a majority of a population has actually chosen this form of government. Those who like to call America a republic often ...

The premise is simple: what if we undid many of the recent anti-democracy measures legislators ... constitutional right to petition our government,” said Bonnie Miller, president of the League ...

The attorney general’s office has already certified three other ballot title proposals that address education, government transparency ... and enhancing direct democracy in Arkansas remains ...

More often accurate than Mead’s speculation, is comedian George Carlin’s observation: “Never underestimate the power of ...

Meanwhile, Kübler says, the option of the federal government jumping in ... the decentralised nature of Swiss democracy. Yet while Switzerland’s direct democracy makes it an outlier in allowing ...

President Trump’s statement that “maybe we have to look at the judges” is a direct threat from the head of one branch of government ... as a shield to protect democracy from corruption ...