Colorado Project-Common Cause v. Anderson

How courts have described this case

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• striking down as “a limitation not authorized by the constitution” a statutory requirement that signing and circulation of petitions must be by registered electors rather than qualified electors as specified in the constitution
• initiative provisions of the constitution reserve to the people the power to ensure consideration of particular laws independent of action by the General Assembly
• constitutional provisions should be read in para materia with pertinent controlling statutes on the same subject matter
• constitutional provisions should be read in pari materia with pertinent controlling statutes on the same subject matter
• court must read constitutional and statutory provisions relating to same subject matter in pari materia
• \[Initiative provisions] must be liberally construed to effectuate their purpose and to facilitate the exercise by electors of this most important right reserved to them by the constitution.\

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).