League of Women Voters v. Secretary of State

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

• stating that “[w]hen the people enact legislation by popular vote,” they engage in the “exercise of their sovereign power to legislate”
• stating that “[w]hen the people enact legislation by popular vote,” they engage in the “exercise of their sovereign power to legislate”
• discussing the Attorney General's explanatory statement attached to a referendum question
• upholding statute, enacted by initiative, adding to qualifications of state constitutional officers
• language relating to potential application of term limits to sitting officeholders \could be construed in two possible ways\
• “[w]hen the people enact legislation by popular vote, we construe the citizen initiative provisions of the Maine Constitution liberally in order to facilitate the people’s exercise of their sovereign power to legislate”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).