State officials said that most of their laws had been passed by citizen initiatives.
However, others voted the idea down, including voters in the state of Washington who repealed a bottled water tax via citizen initiative.
Amendment 41 is a citizen initiative adopted by Colorado voters in the 2006 general election.
Today is one of the busiest, with 81 citizen initiatives before voters in more than 20 states.
On education, there are 11 citizen initiatives and 13 measures referred to voters by State Legislatures.
On the ballot are many mayors, other local public offices, and a wide variety of citizen initiatives.
Exceptional, high-profile crimes often lead to legislative action driven by citizen initiative.
Their ethics laws, which date from the mid-1970's, were created through citizen initiatives placed on the ballot, not by the action of the legislatures.
Sections 2 and 3 of article 19 defines how citizen initiatives for constitutional amendments can be approved.
Across the country, Americans voted on hundreds of ballot measures, including at least 90 citizen initiatives.
