ballot initiatives

常見(jiàn)例句

It was voters, for example, who by means of ballot initiatives insisted that the state spend more money on schools and stem-cell research.
比如說(shuō)，那些通過(guò)公民投票儅選的人堅(jiān)持增加教育和肝細(xì)胞研究開(kāi)支；
California’s governorship is a pretty weak one: the state’s government is a mess of competing districts, counties and cities, with much of the budget mandated by ballot initiatives.
加州州長(zhǎng)本來(lái)就不是一個(gè)強(qiáng)勢(shì)的位置：州政府由一群混亂的下級(jí)政府（地區(qū)、郡縣、城市）組成，相互之間還多存在競(jìng)爭(zhēng)關(guān)系，而且大多數(shù)的預(yù)算取決於全民投票的結(jié)果（譯者注：加州的政治中全民投票是很重要的環(huán)節(jié)，經(jīng)常被使用，甚至被某些政治研究機(jī)搆稱爲(wèi)加州政府的第四分支）。
It was he, as governor in 1978, who had to implement (having opposed it) Proposition 13, the most infamous of all ballot initiatives.
正是佈朗1978年任州長(zhǎng)期間不得不執(zhí)行了第13號(hào)法案（他曾經(jīng)反對(duì)過(guò)）。這是所有選民公投中最臭名昭著的一項(xiàng)法案。

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