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...authority of the commonwealth shall be vested in a general court, but the people reserve to themselves power to propose laws and amendments to the constitution, and to enact or reject the same at the polls, independently of the general court, and also reserve the power at their own option to approve or reject...

...resolutions, memorials, and the like. In the initiative clause it is said : "The people reserve to themselves power to propose laws and amendments to the Constitution and to enact or reject the same at the polls." The reservation clause reads: "And also reserve power at their own option to approve or reject at the...

...and House of Representatives, both to be elected by the people, but the people reserve to themselves the power to propose laws and amendments to the Constitution and to enact or reject laws the same at the polls independent of the General Assembly, and also reserve power at their own...

...state: "By the adoption of section 1 of article 4 of the Constitution the people reserved to themselves the power to propose laws and amendments to the Constitution, and to adopt or reject the same, independently of the Legislature, and also reserved to themselves the power...

...legislature, consisting of a senate and a house of representatives ; but the people reserve to themselves the power to propose laws and amendments to the constitution and to enact and reject the same at the polls independent of the legislature, and also reserve power at their own...

...initiative and referendum features, and states broadly the reservation by the people to themselves of the power "to propose laws and amendments to the Constitution and to enact or reject the same at the polls as independent of the General Assembly," and also the "power at their own option to approve or reject...

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...amendment is that "the people of each municipality, each county, and of the State reserve to themselves the power to propose laws and amendments to the Constitution, and to enact or reject the same at the polls." So, if by judicial interpretation we insert the words necessary to apply the power only to local bills,...

...provisions of said ABK.] STATE ex rel. v. DONAGHEY. 63 amendment. They reserved to themselves thereby the power "to propose laws and amendments to the Constitution and to enact or reject the same at the polls, as independent of the legislative assembly," a power theretofore committed exclusively to the General...