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<div><p><em>Editor's note: This article was written by&nbsp;Tom Nussbaum and Chris Micheli.</em></p><p>Just over a century ago in California, the initiative process was proposed by Progressives, the labor movement, and others as a means of addressing a Legislature which was perceived to be under the

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