Rhode Island, the only state to hold a popular referendum on the Constitution, rejected it.
The SNP used to hold that the monarchy would be retained in an independent Scotland, pending a popular referendum.
Nearly 55% of the French voted against the plan in a popular referendum.
The Constitutional reform in Venezuela that is scheduled to be ratified by popular referendum is having major repercussions in Venezuela now.
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South Sudan became independent from Sudan in July 2011, following a popular referendum and a war that left nearly 2 million people dead.
Its recommendation must be approved by the school board then by a vote in a popular referendum, before the plans can be carried out.
Last Sunday more than 88% of the voters in the small coastal town of Maki turned out to vote in the country's first-ever popular referendum.
Powerful Shiite cleric Muqtada al-Sadr has said that any such agreement should be put to a popular referendum, a position reflected in demonstrations in several Shiite Baghdad neighborhoods Friday.
He has since steadily trimmed the powers of both the army and the judiciary, most recently in a constitutional-reform package that was put to a popular referendum last September.
Mr. Zelaya had already showed his hand when he organized a mob to try to carry out a June 28 popular referendum so that he could cancel the elections and remain in office.
Assemblymen invented on the spot a new law that enabled them to pass major text for a constitutional reform that must be ready by December 14 and be subject to a popular referendum.
Thus, because Obama is annoyed at Congressional resistance and because he is aware of his popularity, he calls for a constitutional reform via a popular referendum that approves a constitution that increases the power of the President to carry out a "socially just policy".
The effect -- if not the stated purpose -- of Yeltsin's decision to proceed with the popular referendum on a new constitution and a vote of confidence in his leadership is to throw down the gauntlet to the Soviet-era Congress of People's Deputies and its apparatchik leadership.
Any change should be put to popular vote in a referendum, such as we've seen in Scotland or Wales for constitutional change there.
But if we did ever agree to alter our relationship, then I've already said we would seek popular consent via a referendum, as set out in legislation.
His hope is that he can reverse his fortunes by bringing back from the US summit a credible peace deal - which will then win popular approval in a referendum.
If he is still popular when he calls the referendum (and when else would he call it?), his personal imprimatur may indeed help to decide the issue.
It informed the user if the registered voter had signed the recall referendum against Chavez, abstained from voting in elections, participated in the government's popular programs or signed a counter-petition for a recall referendum against opposition legislators.
Even so, independent pollsters say he is not popular enough to win the votes he needs in the referendum.
And what also seems very unlikely at the moment, is that negotiations between Catalan pro-independence parties and Spain's ruling centre-right Popular Party will be possible, over the question of a referendum.
"While a popular SNP isn't a sufficient condition to win an independence referendum, it's almost undoubtedly a necessary condition, " he said.
But, should the people of Scotland vote Yes in a referendum on independence, then they would be displaying their popular displeasure at such a reservation.
And it torpedoed the referendum scheduled to be held next month that would have put these issues to a popular vote in order to break the legislative gridlock.
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