I spoke my mind. I voted my conscience. And I never looked back once I was out of college. So we can continue to disagree about the past. *G*

If we're talking, as the ruling was, about petitions to change laws, then I don't think just knowing the rules is sufficient. There needs to be accountability. I worry, I hope needlessly, about ending up with Star Chambers and Councils of Twelve. It's easy to do things in the dark that you wouldn't say or do in the light. Making people who want the laws changed do so in the light is, I hope, a way of a) keeping frivolities off ballots (I hated voting in California. The ballots were pages long in Los Angeles) and b) preventing prejudices from becoming law.