"Plebiscite" is a word in LAW AND LEGAL, ENGLISH
In modern constltutlonal law, the name "plebiscite" has been given to a vote of the entire people, (that ls, the aggregate of the enfranchised Indlvlduals composlng a state or nation.) expressing thelr cholce for or against a proposed law or en-actment, submitted to them, and whlch, lf adopted, wlll work a radical change ln the constltntlon. or whlch Is beyond the powers of the regular leglslatlve body. The proceeding ls extraordinary, and is generally revolutionary ln lts character; an example of which may be seen ln the plebiscites submitted to the French .people by Louis Napoleon, whereby the Second Empire wns es-tablished. But the -principle of the plebiscite has been incorporated ln the modern Swlss constltutlon, (under the name of “referendum,") by whlch a revision of the con-stltutlon must be undertaken when demand-ed by the vote of fifty thousand Swiss citl-zens. Maine, Popular Govt 40, 96
A vote by universal male suffrage; especially, in
France, a popular vote, as first sanctioned by the National
Constitution of 1791.
It has been more wittily than charitably said that hell is paved with good intentions. They have their place in heaven also.
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A grizzled old man was eating in a truck stop when three Hell's Angels' bikers walked in. The first walked up to the old man, pushed his cigarette into the old man's pie and then took a seat at the counter. The second walked up to the old man, spat into the old man's milk and then he too took a seat at the counter. The third walked up to the old man, turned over the old man's plate, and then he took a seat at the counter. Without a word of protest, the old man quietly left the diner. Shortly thereafter, one of the bikers said to the waitress, "Humph, not much of a man, was he?" The waitress replied, "Not much of a truck driver either, he just backed his big-rig over three motorcycles."
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