An adverse vote of 81 to 65 kept in the State Affairs Committee a bill which would order the referendum on the April 4 ballot, when Texas votes on a U.S. senator.

The laws against the department stores opening on Sundays were ended by referendum in 1990.

On November 7, 1933, the referendum on the Blue Laws passed in Philadelphia and it became law.

After a referendum on territorial autonomy on 28 September 1958, French Equatorial Africa was dissolved, and its four constituent states – Gabon, Congo ( Brazzaville ), the Central African Republic, and Chad became autonomous members of the French Community from 28 November 1958.

A new modern constitution, which devolved some authority from the United Kingdom to the Cayman Islands government, was passed by referendum on 20 May 2009.

The French constitutional referendum of September 1958 dissolved the AEF, and on 1 December of the same year the Assembly declared the birth of the autonomous Central African Republic with Boganda as head of government.

As the February 28, 2008 deadline to approve or reject CAFTA loomed, Arias decided to call for the referendum himself, and it took take place on October 7, 2007.

On 2 May 1991 the Croatian parliament voted to hold a referendum on independence.

They held their own referendum a week earlier on 12 May 1991 in the territories they controlled and voted to remain in Yugoslavia which the Croatian government did not recognize as valid.

In 2001, a group of activists collected thousands of signatures for the Varela Project, a petition requesting a referendum on the island's political process was openly supported by former US president Jimmy Carter during his historic 2002 visit to Cuba.

A referendum took place on May 16, 2009 to decide whether to cut down the government's unwieldy political bureaucracy.

In November 2008, Columbia's undergraduate student body held a referendum on the question of whether or not to invite ROTC back to campus, and the students who voted were almost evenly divided on the issue.

Specifically, this demand for political democracy implies complete freedom to agitate for secession and for a referendum on secession by the seceding nation.

__NOTOC__The current Political Constitution of the Republic of Chile, approved by Chilean voters in a controversial and tightly controlled plebiscite on September 11, 1980, under the military dictatorship of Augusto Pinochet, partially effective March 11, 1981, fully effective 11 March 1990 and amended considerably on August 17, 1989 ( via referendum ) and on September 22, 2005 ( legislatively ), and also in 1991, 1994, 1997, 1999, 2000, 2001, 2003, 2007, 2008, 2009 and 2010, replaced the earlier constitution of 1925.

After the plebiscite, several modifications to the Constitution were agreed and subjected to referendum, among them a simplification on the mechanism of future modification.

On 18 and 19 December 2005, a successful nationwide referendum was carried out on a draft constitution which set the stage for elections in 2006.

That constitution was adopted by referendum in December 2005, and decreed into law on 18 February 2006.

Currently, the Danish government wants a referendum on the opt-outs from the EU-treaty, but the prospect of the opt-outs perhaps being rejected does not look appealing.

In 1958, on the eve of neighboring Somalia's independence in 1960, a referendum was held in Djibouti to decide whether or not to join the Somali Republic or to remain with France.

However, the referendum was again marred by reports of vote rigging on the part of the French authorities, with some 10, 000 Somalis deported under the pretext that they did not have valid identity cards.

Two founding documents emerged from this: The Transition Constitution, and the Global and Inclusive Agreement, both of which describe and determine the make-up and organization of the Congolese institutions, until planned elections in July 2006, at which time the provisions of the new constitution, democratically approved by referendum in December 2005, will take full effect and that is how it happened.

The Conservative Party has for years been split on the issue of Europe, with some arguing for the full withdrawal subject to a referendum but many supporting the Union though powers should be sought back from Brussels and the Union should be less of a political and economic union.

A monarch may retain his style and certain prerogatives after abdication, as did King Leopold III of Belgium, who left the throne to his son after winning a referendum which allowed him to retain a full royal household deprived him of a constitutional or representative role.

On September 10, 2002, Switzerland became a full member of the United Nations, after a referendum supporting full membership won in a close vote six months earlier ;

Their agreed " One Wales " programme included a commitment for both parties to campaign for a ' Yes ' vote in a referendum on full law-making powers for the Assembly, to be held at a time of the Welsh Assembly Government's choosing.

A referendum held on April 27, 1926, showed that citizens had voted ten to one in favor of the town taking over full support of the library.

Following Montenegro's vote for full independence in the referendum of 21 May 2006 ( 55. 4 % yes, 44. 6 % no ), Montenegro declared independence on 3 June 2006 .< ref name =" bbc_2007 ">

Electoral reformers in the Labour Party kept up the pressure, and in September 1989, after Palmer had become prime minister, the full annual conference of the Labour Party passed a remit endorsing a referendum on the principle of proportional representation.

Marović's political party, the DPS, has backed full independence for Montenegro, and Marović campaigned for a " yes " vote in the 2006 referendum on Montenegrin independence.

On January 3, 1861, Crittenden tried to salvage his plan by recommending to the full Senate that it be submitted to the people in referendum.

M ' ba now had full executive powers: he could appoint ministers whose functions and responsibilities were decided by him ; he could dissolve the National Assembly by choice or prolong its term beyond the normal five years ; he could declare a state of emergency when he believed the need arose, though for this amendment he would have to consult the people via a referendum.

This has deepened further since the movement for full Montenegrin independence from the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia began to gain ground in 1991, and ultimately narrowly succeeded in the referendum of May 2006 ( having been rejected in 1992 ).

Moreover, he also engaged in a process culminating in full powers over taxation for Catalonia — significantly reducing the so-called ' fiscal deficit ' between Catalonia and Spain — by putting this issue to referendum to the Catalans and as a condition for giving any support to Spanish governments in Madrid after the Spanish elections scheduled for 2012.

In a 2005 radio interview the partnerships officer said that full civil marriage would not be likely to succeed in a referendum.

* Bishop Zen supports referendum for full democracy

In 2003, students voted in a referendum to maintain a levy $ 9 per full time student per semester to subsidize the Agora.

After a full year of prospective membership, when a referendum on joining was meant to occur, other member locals of the Canadian Federation of Students voted against extending SSMU's prospective membership.

From October 4 – 6, 2005, a referendum was held for members of the USSU ( undergraduate students at the University of Saskatchewan ) to end their relationship with CFS, or become full fee-paying members of the Canadian Federation of students.

After the process of dissolution of Yugoslavia began, the Republic of Macedonia proclaimed full independence following a referendum held on 8 September 1991.

* Toured New Zealand at the invitation of electoral reformers during a successful referendum campaign in that country in 1993 to adopt a full representation voting system.

On June 30, 2009, a D. C. Superior Court judge ruled against a group opposed to the new law, who wanted a referendum on the issue, and had also asked the Court to delay the enactment of the new law until the court decided the full case, and also allowed the voters to weigh in.

Section VII, the final section of this constitution, was passed in a referendum on November 8, 2005, and takes full effect at noon, January 19, 2010, following the transfer of power to the next executive.

* Seek indigenous views ahead of full referendum, 29 January 2011.