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Once an initiative has run through these filters and succeeds on the ballot, the legislature must be able to revisit the subject in due course. California should consider allowing initiatives only to enact statutes, as many other states do, not amend the constitution. Another practice used in other states is to “sunset” all initiatives—after a decade, say—by requiring explicit reauthorisation from voters or the legislature. This, too, offers protection against unintended consequences that usually reveal themselves only with time.
Together, these steps are likely to minimise the greatest problem with the initiative process, ballot-box budgeting. But reform must make this goal explicit. All initiatives must be clear about their effects on taxation and spending. A measure must indicate where the necessary revenues are to be found, or what other programme is to be cut. Today, “people vote for initiatives out of emotion, they do not realise that initiatives cost money,” says Karen Bass, the former assembly speaker. Once they understand the economic trade-offs, their emotions are likely to cool.
Because problems in the initiative process and the legislature are like chicken and egg, any reform must simultaneously deal with the representative arm of democracy too. That part, in fact, has already begun. Gerrymandering has ended as an independent commission is due to redraw the map for candidates for the first time this summer. The next primary election will be open to all voters irrespective of party affiliation. And an initiative to modify, if not eliminate, term limits on legislators will be on a ballot next year.

A. 어휘
revisit 재방문하다. in due course 오래지 않아서, 未久(미구)에, 당연한 추세로.
enact 법령을 制定(제정)하다. statutes 법령, 法規(법규).
amend 수정하다. sunset 日沒(일몰)제로하다. explicit 명백한.
reauthorisation 再(재) 認可(인가), 재 강제력. consequences 결과.
reveal themselves only with time 시간이 지나야 實體(실체)를 드러내다.
steps 조치, 단계. measure 법령. revenues 歲入(세입).
assembly 州(주) 의회. trade-offs 균형, 거래, 교환.
simultaneously 同時(동시)에.
Gerrymandering 선거구를 자기 당에 유리하게 고치기, 부정.
primary election 예비선거. irrespective of 관계없이.
affiliation 가입, 입회, 結緣(결연), 동맹. modify 수정하다.
eliminate 제거하다. term limits 임기제한.