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Constitutional Law

Aug. 10, 2020

Two cooks in California’s policy kitchen

It’s an election year, so the California initiative process is enduring the usual complaints about the initiative as “an institution that needs to be up for scrutiny” and the state needing to steel itself for a “blockbuster year of ballot measures.” Should you gird your loins, squint at the November ballot, and worry that California is about to self-destruct?

David A. Carrillo

Executive Director
California Constitution Center at Berkeley Law.

Stephen M. Duvernay

Phone: (916) 447-4900

Email: steve@benbrooklawgroup.com

Notre Dame Law School; Notre Dame IN

It’s an election year, so the California initiative process is enduring the usual complaints about the initiative as “an institution that needs to be up for scrutiny” and the state needing to steel itself for a “blockbuster year of ballot measures.” Should you gird your loins, squint at the November ballot, and worry that California is about to self-destruct?

Hardly. There are 12 measures in the November general election, and that ma...

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