Has South Dakota soured on direct democracy? The answer to that question will be partly answered during the 2025 legislative session, as Republican lawmakers continue a recent trend of trying to ...

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The legislative session that begins Monday should not be held, and lawmakers should reject all of Ron DeSantis’ demands. But ...

Direct democracy – or legislating through the ballot – has been baked into the Golden State’s political system for well over a century, allowing voters to legislate and amend the ...

In a recent discussion on the social network X (previously known as Twitter), Musk hypothesised about how Martian colonies ought to be ruled, implying that direct democracy is the optimal answer ...

Legislators have been more successful curtailing the process with statutory changes in Pierre. From 2018 to 2024, South ...

There are two models of democracy. One is a direct democracy; the other is a representative democracy. In the former, citizens elect people as “delegates” to the legislature to formulate laws ...