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Local option   /lˈoʊkəl ˈɑpʃən/   Listen
Local option

noun
1.
Freedom of a local government to determine by popular vote the applicability of a controversial law in their jurisdiction.





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"Local option" Quotes from Famous Books



... crime has been checked, and the criminal courts transact their business in one-seventh of the former time; there are about half as many arrests, and the streets on which it was unsafe for a lady to go alone, have become orderly. Local option has established temperance in Georgia. Out of 137 counties 115 are controlled by prohibition. In Iowa under prohibition, the Fort Madison Penitentiary is for the first time short of the supply of convicts ...
— Buchanan's Journal of Man, August 1887 - Volume 1, Number 7 • Various


Words linked to "Local option" :   self-government, self-determination, self-rule


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