Arizona's initiative and referendum process is as old as the Arizona Constitution itself, lasting a full 100 years where citizens could propose statutes, amendments and veto referendums. In the most recent decade, since 2000, citizens have used the I&R process to place 29 ballot measures on statewide ballots.
During the expansion of the Islamic caliphate, the Muslim
rule was often preferred to the Persian or the byzantine because of the main
reason that the caliphate extracts few taxes from its conquered populations
than the empire that it resides.
