Referendum is valid Scrabble Word

Is referendum a scrabble word?
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10 letters word
16 points in Scrabble
19 points in WWF

Definitions for REFERENDUM in dictionary:

NOUN:

(Latin) the process or principle of referring an important political question to the nation as a whole
a general vote by the electorate on a single political question which has been referred to them for a direct decision.
A diplomatic agent\'s note asking for instructions from his government concerning a particular matter or point.
The right to approve or reject by popular vote a meassure passed upon by a legislature.
a legislative act is referred for final approval to a popular vote by the electorate
the process or principle of referring an important political question to the nation as a whole

OTHER DEFINITIONS:

the principle or practice of submitting to popular vote a measure passed on or proposed by a legislative body or by popular initiative; a vote on a measure so submitted

Words related to REFERENDUM

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How to use REFERENDUM in a sentence

Nowhere in the instrument is there a suggestion of the initiative or referendum.
There is now a limited use of the Referendum upon certain comparatively simple questions.
Foreign ministers, says Sir William Temple, who was himself a foreign minister, elude matters taken ad referendum, by tampering with the provinces and cities.
He recognized that the end of autocracy had been reached and declined to accept the throne unless chosen by a popular referendum vote.
It is not likely that Grand-Duke Michael entertained the faintest hope that he would ever be called to the throne, either by a Constituent Assembly or by a popular referendum.
The Finns voted in an October 1994 referendum to enter the EU, and Finland officially joined the Union on 1 January 1995.
At the same time they approved the initiative, referendum, and popular election of Senators, and condemned the use of federal troops in labor disputes.
It failed, however, to capture popular imagination to the same degree as the initiative and referendum.
State after state by popular referendum abolished the liquor traffic within its borders.
Should the Initiative and Referendum be adopted as a national principle? 25.

Haywood was subsequently removed by a referendum from the National Executive Committee of the Socialist Party.
The initiative by small petitions, and the referendum as a frequent resort, are dangerous.
The referendum enables citizens to vote for or against a law that the commission has passed, and thus to repeal it if they desire.
In Massachusetts they have secured a referendum providing that all cities of over ten thousand inhabitants shall vote upon the question of providing adequate playgrounds.
It has been matter of party platform for some years that all franchises should thus be submitted to the local referendum.
Of the initiative and referendum much has been written.
The more valuable part of the reform is undoubtedly the referendum.
So far as one can judge, the referendum in this country shows the same tendency that it has shown in Switzerland.
The initiative and referendum was adopted in Iowa in 1891.
In Oregon, the general initiative and referendum by constitutional amendment in 1903.
As to Chicago, Illinois, in 1904, and in several States, what we will term the local or limited referendum, in the last four or five years.
The recall, a still more recent device than the initiative and referendum, has, indeed, no precedent in the past, or in other countries.
The convention of 1898 submitted to the referendum a plan for a national system.
The International Union finally decided to accept the offer of the site at Colorado Springs, and this decision was approved by a referendum vote.
In some instances the right of referendum and recall was provided.
The initiative and referendum are valuable because they enable the people to protect themselves from misrepresentation.
This something more is a direct appeal to the electors in the nature of a Referendum.
My conviction is that the introduction of the Referendum, in one shape or another in respect of large constitutional changes, would be a distinct benefit to the country.
A second objection is that a Referendum renders any law which obtains the approval of the electors more difficult of alteration than an ordinary Act of Parliament.
No doubt reaction may be justifiable, but reaction is a great evil, and the Referendum puts a check as well on reaction as on hasty innovation.

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