<P> The following US states allow legislatively - referred state statutes: </P> <Ul> <Li> Arizona </Li> <Li> Arkansas </Li> <Li> California </Li> <Li> Colorado </Li> <Li> Delaware </Li> <Li> Illinois </Li> <Li> Kentucky </Li> <Li> Maine </Li> <Li> Maryland </Li> <Li> Massachusetts </Li> <Li> Michigan </Li> <Li> Missouri </Li> <Li> Montana </Li> <Li> Nebraska </Li> <Li> Nevada </Li> <Li> New Mexico </Li> <Li> North Dakota </Li> <Li> Ohio </Li> <Li> Oklahoma </Li> <Li> Oregon </Li> <Li> Pennsylvania </Li> <Li> South Dakota </Li> <Li> Utah </Li> <Li> Washington </Li> </Ul> <P> With the exception of Delaware, 49 US states allow legislatively - referred state constitutional amendments . </P> <P> The initiative and referendums process have critics . Some argue that initiatives and referendums undermine representative government by circumventing the elected representatives of the people and allowing the people to directly make policy: they fear excessive majoritarianism (tyranny of the majority) as a result, believing that minority groups may be harmed . </P>

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