Scope of Suffrage
Scope of Suffrage:
1.
Election
– a political exercise whereby the sovereign people choose a candidate to fill
up an elective government position
2.
Plebiscite
– right to ratify or reject constitutional amendments or proposed laws
3.
Referendum
– right reserved to the people to adopt or reject any act or measure which has
been passed by a legislative body and which in most cases would without action
on the part of the electors become a law.
4.
Initiative
– power of the people to propose bills and laws, and to enact or reject them at
the polls, independent of the legislative assembly
5.
Recall
– system by which an elective official is removed by popular vote before the
end of his term.
