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California Experiments With Direct Legislation

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Pacific Press Publishing Association · Mountain View, California · Mar 19, 1912

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 39, No. 12.

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California Experiments With Direct Legislation

By Editor

The people of California have decided to experiment with the initiative, referendum, and recall in legislation. We hope it may be in an intelligent way, and that the people may decide what some classes are bound not to see, that class privileges and religious matters lie outside the purview of all proper civil legislation. There are some questions which belong to well-understood society codes unwritten in statute law, and other questions lie wholly between the conscience and God.