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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



... made an issue of prohibition, and planned astutely to go to the town meetings on that platform, for a majority of the towns voted local option with regularity. The new powers would first sweep the town meetings for local option, and in the wave of enthusiasm put into office at the same time ...
— Scattergood Baines • Clarence Budington Kelland


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


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