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How are referendums brought to a vote? We don't have such a thing in the US. Certain states do, but not the country.
by jermaustin1 8y ago
How are referendums brought to a vote? We don't have such a thing in the US. Certain states do, but not the country.
- MatekCopatek 8y agoDepends on the country. In Slovenia you have to collect 40k supporter signatures or have ~1/3 of the parliament support it. And a referendum can only cancel already passed laws, it cannot pass a new law. The one they had in UK was a non-binding one, which can usually only be brought to a vote by the parliament.
- umanwizard 8y agoThe British Parliament can do basically whatever it wants. The concepts of separation of powers and Constitutionally-mandated red tape are much less developed than in the United States. So the answer to why anything happened in the UK, including holding a referendum, is basically just: because Parliament decided to.
- dragonwriter 8y ago> How are referendums brought to a vote? Parliament votes to have them > We don't have such a thing in the US. Well, Congress doesn't choose to have them (separation of powers helps here; the Brexit referendum was very much about electoral strategy in a system where voting for a district legislator is also voting for a particular executive administration.) > Certain states do, but not the country. What many US states regularly have is binding referenda with Constitutional force and process; while these may sometimes be of legislative origin, they could do Brexit-style referenda (because of their general powers) but, again, separation of powers kind of eliminates the political use of them, or at least that of Brexit specifically, and a non-binding referenda on a non-profit proposal isn't something that makes a lot of sense outside of very particular political circumstances.