(June 24, 2016 at 1:35 am)SteelCurtain Wrote: ^^^Fuckin Yup^^^
ETA: Except for the civil rights part. Civil rights referendums can go horribly wrong when there is an underrepresented or disenfranchised minority's rights at stake. If segregation laws were up for referendum, there are some portions of the South in America which would happily vote to segregate schools/businesses. Hell, there are places in America where black people would vote to segregate themselves.
It can go both ways. Weed is being legalized by referendums. Sometimes the population knows better than the government on civil rights issues.