Buckley v. Secretary of the Commonwealth

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• first ten signers had standing to prohibit Secretary from placing substitute, legislatively sponsored, measure on ballot instead of initiative petition
• a legislative measure duly adopted as a “legislative substitute” did “not conform to the requirements of art. 48 ... for a legislative substitute”
• in creating substitute, legislature has power to “edit, polish or amend an initiative proposal while retaining in that process the sense of the proposal so revised”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).