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In 1911, California passed a state constitutional amendment allowing citizens to vote on ballot initiatives,

an opportunity to legislate from the voting booth.

Thus began America's most lasting and consequential experiment with direct democracy, an experiment that, over a century later, still remains controversial.

The ballot initiative process has led to regressive populist victories like 1994's Proposition 187, a draconian anti-immigrant

measure, 2008's Proposition 8, which banned a same-sex marriage, ironically past the same year

Californians overwhelmingly voted Barack Obama for president, and most disastrously,

1987's Proposition 13, which, in limiting property taxes on rich homeowners, both hamstrung state revenues and

throttled the housing supply. But Californians have also united to advance social and economic

progress not delivered by the state legislature. 1914's Proposition 10 helped insure voting rights

by banning poll taxes. 2016's Proposition 64 legalized marijuana, a boon to the emerging job classification of

podcast producer, and 1986's Proposition 65 required corporations to provide written notification

of the presence of dangerous chemicals. The state of California's own description reads,

quote, Proposition 65 requires businesses to provide warnings to California's about significant

exposures to chemicals

that cause cancer, birth effects, or other reproductive harm, end quote. And while you'd be

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