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Protecting and Expanding Initiative Referendum Rights There is nothing more sacred to a free people than the right to govern themselves and take matters into their own hands when their elected officials have failed them. When the very government which the people have created to secure their liberty and domestic tranquility imposes restraints on their freedom the people have a duty to try to break the shackles themselves. Ward Connerly Chairman of the American Civil Rights Coalition Citizens In Charge Citizens in Charge and Citizens in Charge Foundation partner in protecting and expanding the initiative and referendum process. The organization works with activists legislators media opinion leaders and voters to protect the initiative and referendum process where it exists in26 statesand to expand the process to the 26 states where voters currently lack that right.