If every one of those bills were, in fact, constitutional and were upheld, you couldn't do this process at all,” attorney ...

Kansas lawmakers talk a good game about letting the citizens decide, but only if they get to choose the topic and the timing.

Research shows that states that have a dominant party in office for awhile, efforts to make citizen led initiatives harder ...

SB586, the Protect Our Constitution Act, would all but obliterate any chance for the people of Arkansas to pass ...

Many states provide for direct, or pure, democracy with citizen-initiated ballot measures for new laws and/or vetoes through ...

Attorney General Tim Griffin rejected a proposed ballot measure to amend the state's direct democracy process, saying it was ...

Supporters of an Ohio constitutional amendment guaranteeing abortion access cheer its passage at a watch party in Columbus on Nov. 7, 2023. The state’s voters also defeated a legislatively ...

The Arkansas Attorney General's Office rejected on Tuesday proposed ballot language for a constitutional amendment to ...

Commitment to democracy under the structure of a republic creates rights and duties for elected representatives. Some are not meeting their responsibilities.

CIVICUS discusses recent protests in Serbia with Alma Mustajbašić, researcher at Civic Initiatives, a Serbian civil society organisation that advocates for democracy, human rights and citizen ...

Democrats and voting rights groups fight those measures, saying they limit access to the ballot and cripple direct democracy, something that has existed in Florida since 1886 — the year Thomas ...