Save Palisade Fruitlands v. Todd

How courts have described this case

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• holding that the Equal Protection Clause does not “command Colorado to grant the power of initiative to the electors of statutory counties simply because it has granted that power to the electors of home rule counties”
• “[N]othing in the language of the Constitution commands direct democracy . . . .”
• “[I]nitiatives are state-created rights and are therefore not guaranteed by the U.S. Constitution.”
• “[T]he right to free speech . . . [is] not implicated by the state’s creation of an initiative procedure, but only by the state’s attempts to regulate speech associated with an initiative procedure . . . .”
• “[T]he right to free speech and the right to vote are not implicated by the state’s creation of an initiative procedure, but only by the state’s attempts to regulate speech associated with an initiative procedure . . . .”
• including rational-basis review in the context of equal protection

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).