Showing the initiative process at the state level

The ballot initiative process gives California citizens a way to propose laws and constitutional amendments without the support of the Governor or the Legislature. ... Active Measures are proposed initiatives. Inactive Measures are withdrawn or failed proposals.

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social contract theory, nearly as old as philosophy itself, is the view that persons' moral and/or political obligations are dependent upon a contract or agreement among them to form the society in which they liv