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

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

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 ...

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 ...

Has South Dakota soured on direct democracy? The answer to that question will be partly answered during the 2025 legislative ...

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

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 ...

Some thoughts on the desirable amount of democracy, the dangers of centralized political authority, and the inability of socialism to generate wealth, among other things: ...

If Senate Bill 1027 passes, only 34,000 signatures out of 883,000 would be counted between Tulsa and Oklahoma counties.

The premise is simple: what if we undid many of the recent anti-democracy measures legislators have passed and stopped them from messing with the process in the future? “We believe filing this ...