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* Referendum *

REFERENDUM - A system of legislation whereby proposed laws are submitted to popular vote.

international law. When an ambassador receives propositions touching an object over which he has no sufficient power and he is without instruction, he accepts it ad referendum, that is, under the condition that it shall be acted upon by his government, to which it is referred. The note addressed in that case to his government to submit the question to its consideration is called a referendum.
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