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State Supreme Court Rejects Ballot Initiative to Partition California Into Three States
Justices rule unanimously that fundamental constitutional restructuring requires legislative constitutional convention rather than standard voter referendum.
The long-simmering campaign to dissolve the nation’s most populous state into three distinct regional polities reached an abrupt legal terminus today. In a sweeping thirty-two-page opinion, the state Supreme Court determined that partitioning a sovereign entity is a qualitative revision of the constitution that cannot be enacted via simple initiative.
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