CSPAN3 Oregon Landmark Legislation July 4, 2017
And referendum system that allows the public to play a lead role in writing laws and writing regulations and also in recalling elected officials. But here in oregon our ball lots are often very lengthy because not only do we vote on candidates but were voting on a series of initiatives and referendums for ideas for policy, for legislation. One of the most important ones that was passed back in 1912 was giving women the right to vote. One of the great oregonian stories is Abigail Scott do doneway. For more than half a century, she was fighting to give women the right to own property, fighting t...
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