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Legislative Referendum
Popular Referendum
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I&R Constitutional and Statutory Provisions
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Populist
State Senator J. H. McConnell of Otter Pond, Kentucky, successfully pushed a
statewide I&R bill through the state senate in 1900, but the measure failed in
the house. Kentucky initiative advocates had to settle for a state law, passed
in 1910, establishing the initiative process in most of the state’s cities.
By the 1970s this municipal I&R
provision (Kentucky Revised Statutes, Ch. 89) applied to all of the state’s 27
largest cities except Louisville. In 1980, however, the legislature passed a new
municipal government law which abolished the provision.
This state history is based on
research found in David Schmidt's book, Citizen Lawmakers: The Ballot
Initiative Revolution. |