Within a Constitutional Republic, ALL laws are to be written and passed by Congress only, and not to be offered up to the  public as a democratic vote.  To do otherwise would defeat the very point and design of a Republic in the first place.   While initiatives are constitutional within Washington, I argue they are not Federally Constitutional.  Also note that within the Federal Constitution there is an article that clearly says that ALL states must be a Republic to live within the Union and that this can not ever be changed, even within the Amendment process.   It is for this very reason that I reject initiatives completely as they are merely another stepping stone to bypassing our Republic, and becoming the Very Democracy that our founders so passionately hated.