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Definition of Referendum
1. Noun. A legislative act is referred for final approval to a popular vote by the electorate.
Definition of Referendum
1. n. A diplomatic agent's note asking for instructions from his government concerning a particular matter or point.
2. n. The principle or practice of referring measures passed upon by the legislative body to the body of voters, or electorate, for approval or rejection, as in the Swiss cantons (except Freiburg) and in various local governments in the United States, and also in the local option laws, etc.; also, the right to so approve or reject laws, or the vote by which this is done. Referendum is distinguished from the mandate, or instruction of representatives by the people, from direct government by the people, in which they initiate and make the laws by direct action without representation, and from a plebiscite, or popular vote taken on any measure proposed by a person or body having the initiative but not constituting a representative or constituent body.
Definition of Referendum
1. Noun. A direct popular vote on a proposed law or constitutional amendment ¹
2. Noun. A note from a diplomat to his government requesting instructions ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Referendum
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Medical Definition of Referendum
1. 1. A diplomatic agent's note asking for instructions from his government concerning a particular matter or point. 2. The right to approve or reject by popular vote a meassure passed upon by a legislature. Origin: Gerundive fr. L. Referre. See Refer. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998)
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Literary usage of Referendum
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Supreme Court Reporter by Robert Desty, United States Supreme Court, West Publishing Company (1916)
"The requisite number of electors under the referendum provision having petitioned
for a submission of the law to a popular vote, such vote was taken and the ..."
2. Readers' Guide to Periodical Literature by H.W. Wilson Company (1911)
"referendum versus representative government J: Macdonell. Contemp. 99: 303-7.
... Initiative and referendum In commission cities. CO Gardner. Ann. Am. Acad. ..."
3. The Arena by Harry Houdini Collection (Library of Congress) (1906)
"A. The referendum means the referring of a law or ordinance or any specific- ...
This is a quasi-referendum or public- opinion vote, such as is in use in ..."
4. The Governments of Europe by Frederic Austin Ogg (1913)
"LEGISLATION: THE referendum AND THE INITIATIVE From the domain of cantonal
legislative procedure there has been carried over into federal law-making the ..."
5. The Encyclopedia Americana: A Library of Universal Knowledge (1919)
"While the terms initiative and referendum were almost unknown in American ...
Some of the States have introduced another type of referendum by amending ..."
6. The Encyclopedia Americana: A Library of Universal Knowledge (1919)
"While the terms initiative and referendum were almost unknown in American ...
Some of the States have introduced another type of referendum by amending ..."
7. The Quarterly Review by William Gifford, George Walter Prothero, John Gibson Lockhart, John Murray, Whitwell Elwin, John Taylor Coleridge, Rowland Edmund Prothero Ernle, William Macpherson, William Smith (1910)
"IN 1880 the name of the referendum was unknow Englishmen. ... To Maine the
referendum was merely a reductio ad absurdum of democratic doctrine. ..."
8. The Federal and State Constitutions: Colonial Charters, and Other Organic by Francis N. Thorpe, United States (1909)
"The powers of the initiative and referendum reserved to the people by this ...
The filing of a referendum petition against one or more items, sections, ..."
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