GENEVA, Switzerland — Amid angry European reactions to US Vice President JD Vance's combative speech in Munich, Switzerland's president said on Saturday she shared many of the "liberal values" he ...

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“It was a plea for direct democracy. One could read it that way,” said the president of Switzerland, a country renowned for its frequent recourse to referendums. Vance told the Munich ...

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Ballot Measure Battle Could Curtail South Dakota's Direct Democracy Has South Dakota soured on direct democracy? The answer to that question will be partly answered during the 2025 legislative session ...

(South Dakota News Watch) - 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 ...

The answer to that question will be partly answered during the 2025 legislative session, as Republican lawmakers continue a recent trend of trying to restrict the state’s first-in-the-nation ...

Reproductive rights groups celebrated on Friday after a Missouri judge temporarily blocked significant abortion restrictions that were kept in place despite voters' approval of a constitutional ...

Arkansans’ ability to participate in the democratic process came into focus during the fifth week of the 2025 legislative session. Some members of the public took part in a rally Monday that advocated ...

They beat us into the union, but none of them beat us to giving our citizens the power of direct legislation. That’s something that should make us all proud. We should treasure it, protect it.

However, it’s important to note that the democracy Socrates critiques differs vastly from today’s representative systems. Athenian democracy in the 5th and 4th centuries BC was a direct democracy ...

But this heavy-handed assault on direct democracy is not the answer. In 2024, a ballot initiative needed nearly 900,000 valid signatures to make the ballot. DeSantis’s scheme all but guarantees ...