People v. Pabello

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How courts have described this case

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• holding Ballot Measure 40 unconstitutional as enacted in violation of the “separate-vote” requirement of Article XVII, section 1, of the Oregon Constitution
• beginning inquiry concerning ballot measure by identifying changes that it would have made to existing constitution
• explaining origins, meaning, and interrelationship of Article IV, section l(2)(d), and Article XVII, section 1
• one purpose of the 1968 amendment was to “ ‘clean-up’ parts of the constitution, by repealing obsolete provisions and by combining the various initiative and referendum powers held by the people into one part of the constitution”
• setting out text of 1859 version of Article XVII
• discussing the 1906 amendment to Article XVII, section 1

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