initiatives and referenda

Top Denver Post Columnist Exposes Weakness of Anti-TABOR Theory 0
- May 12, 2013
Veteran Denver Post (and former Rocky Mountain News) columnist Vincent Carroll writes here about the overweaning ambition of those who support the anti-TABOR lawsuit. That lawsuit claims that because Colorado’s Taxpayer Bill of Rights (TABOR) imposes fiscal limits on the power of the state legislature—that is, restricts lawmakers’ power to tax, spend, and borrow— it
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New II Issue Paper Rebuts Myth that Citizen Review of Laws and Taxes Violates the Republican Form 0
- October 26, 2012
If you are exposed to enough politics, sooner or later you’ll hear the old saw that the U.S. is “a republic and not a democracy.” Along with that saying goes the following claim: Allowing voter initiatives and referenda is unconstitutional: If a state lets voters enact laws or veto tax hikes, the state is too
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