On November 6 California passed Proposition 30, which raises tax rates to increase funding for education.
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Since California passed Proposition 13, a property tax-cutting initiative, in 1978, the use of the ballot measure has become increasingly popular, especially in states in the west.
On the same day that Obama was elected in 2008, voters in California passed Proposition 8, which effectively banned same-sex marriages after the state's high court had ruled them legal.
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The separate case from California deals with Proposition 8, a 2008 voter-approved referendum banning same-sex marriage.
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The court will hear oral arguments on California's Proposition 8 measure next week.
California's Proposition 13, for example, a 1978 initiative lowering local property taxes, set off a tax revolt across America.
California's Proposition 8 is the only such referendum that revoked the right after lawmakers and the state courts previously allowed it.
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The second case involves California's Proposition 8, a 2008 referendum that abolished same-sex marriage after the state's highest court ruled it legal.
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The Supreme Court will be taking a close look at California's Proposition 8, and it is expected to hand down its ruling in June.
The justices will hear California's Proposition 8 case in March.
Tuesday's hearing involved California's Proposition 8, which bans same-sex marriage.
The Supreme Court found a similar Texas law unconstitutional in 1982, and a comparable California law, Proposition 187, was passed in 1994 but got tangled up in the courts.
He gained attention that year with his invocation at President Barack Obama's inauguration that year and comments he made in the aftermath of California's Proposition 8, which overturned gay marriage.
While the presidential motorcade was en route to a second fund-raiser, a small group of protesters could be seen holding up signs which read, "Please Teach Us English" in protest over California's Proposition 227.
Our recent research on the attitudes of California consumers toward Proposition 37 suggests that there are no significant differences in the way high and low income or younger and older households would vote for the Proposition.
Among its nine initiatives, California offered a proposition that could reduce government gridlock by lowering the minimum needed for the legislature to approve a state budget, making it a simple majority instead of a two-thirds majority.
In a response, a representative for Whole Foods denied that any of its products represented health risks, citing standards that were set forth in California's Proposition 65, a state law setting clean-water standards that includes a list of carcinogens.
Supporters of California's Proposition 8, represented by lawyer Charles Cooper, argue that the court should not override the democratic process and impose a judicial solution that would redefine marriage in the 40 states that do not allow same-sex couples to wed.
If the justices hold that California's Proposition 8, which provides that "only marriage between a woman and a man is valid or recognized, " is unconstitutional, this will end the deliberations and impose a single national definition of marriage on us all.
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But it was clear from the start of that argument in a packed courtroom that the justices, including some liberals who seemed open to gay marriage, had doubts about whether they should even be hearing the challenge to California's Proposition 8, the state's voter-approved gay marriage ban.
California's 2008 Proposition 8 referendum revoked the right of same-sex couples to wed after lawmakers and the state courts previously allowed it.
He says that confusingly, some of the money spent on food labelled organic will be going to fight the GM labelling proposition in California.
It also marks a second major victory for marriage equality advocates, after a court recently struck down a ban in California when it ruled Proposition 8 unconstitutional.
March 2013: Obama personally reviews and OKs his administration's amicus or "friend of the court" brief filed with the U.S. Supreme Court as it weighs the constitutionality of California's 2008 Proposition 8 referendum banning same-sex marriage.
And they remember back in California when Governor Pete Wilson put in Proposition 187 and drove Hispanics out of the party by the thousands, and California hasn't voted Republican since.
And in California, voter-approved Proposition 63 gives a new chance to hundreds of Nathaniels.
But California voters in November approved Proposition 8, which amended the state constitution to ban gay marriage.
But first, we're going to continue our conversation about the passage of Proposition 8 in California last week.
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