Fast forwarding to 1994, the citizens

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The dissenting opinion agreed with Luker and indicated that the citizens' right to pass laws through the initiative process is illusory. The only options available to citizens is to pass the initiative again or elect people into office who will more closely reflect their needs and desires in the lawmaking process.

voted for term limits by passing them into law phone number list through the initiative process.

The state legislature emasculated initiative/referenda laws in 1997 by making it almost impossible for citizens to meet the petition signature requirements to get their proposed laws on the ballot.

In late 2001, Idaho District Federal Judge Lynn Winmill reversed the legislature's initiative/referenda emasculation legislation as unconstitutional.

Soon after the 2002 legislative session opened, the Idaho legislature repealed term limits.

Idahoans should not be shocked that the legislature repealed term limits this year. This is the way it has always been.