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The Oregon Direct Legislation League was an organization of political activists founded in 1898 by William S. U'Ren. U'Ren had been politically activated by reading the influential 1893 book Direct Legislation Through the Initiative and Referendum,[1] and the group's founding followed in the wake of the 1896 founding of the National Direct Legislation League, which itself had its roots in the Direct Legislation League of New Jersey and its short-lived predecessor, the People's Power League.[2]
The group led efforts in the U.S. state of Oregon to establish a system of initiative and referendum, allowing direct legislation by the state's citizens. In 1902, the Oregon Legislative Assembly approved a system, which was known at the time as the Oregon System. The group's further efforts led the state in 1904 to add a direct primary system and, in 1908, to allow citizens to directly recall public officials.[3][4]
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- ^ Sullivan, James William (1893). Direct Legislation Through the Initiative and Referendum. True Nationalist Publishing Company.
- ^ Schmidt, David D. (1989). Citizen Lawmakers: The Ballot Initiative Revolution. Philadelphia, PA: Temple University Press, 7, 262.
- ^ Initiative, Referendum and Recall Introduction (HTML). Oregon Blue Book. Salem, Oregon: Oregon Secretary of State (2006). Retrieved on 2006-12-29.
- ^ Carey, Charles Henry (1922). History of Oregon. Chicago, Illinois: Pioneer Publishing, 837-838.
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