There are good-government cases against citizens' initiatives.

Representatives are supposed to be informed experts who do our policy work for us. Ballot proposals create immovable superlaw — often astroturfed by corporate interests, and voted on by rationally ignorant citizens. They foreclose important options of the legislature.

Yet the past few years have turned me into a citizens' initiative superfan. Legislatures are now gerrymandered, captured. We need the check.

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