Posted by chris case on Thursday, January 27, 2005 at 2:23PM :
In Reply to: Re: This is the down side of direct democracy posted by stephen on Thursday, January 27, 2005 at 3:06AM :
California's initiative process was put in place when the railroads bought all the legislators. It's meant as a balance to unprincipaled politicians. It worked well many times, but has it's pitfalls.