Ou Raadsaal Ou Raadsaal The Ou Raadsaal (English: "Old Council Hall") is a historic building in Pretoria, South Africa, located on the south side of Church Square. The Ou Raadsaal housed the Volksraad, the parliament of the South African Republic, from 1891 to 1902. The Ou Raadsaal was commissioned in the late 19th century by the South African Republic as the new seat of government in Pretoria, and was designed by Dutch architect Sytze Wierda in a Renaissance Revival style. The contract for construction was granted to John Johnstone Kirkness, a builder from the Orkney Islands with a prolific building career in
Legislatively referred state statute Legislatively referred state statute A legislatively referred state statute is a statute that appears on a state's ballot as a ballot measure because the state legislature in that state voted to put it before the voters. A legislatively referred statute is a limited form of direct democracy with comparison to the initiated state statute. With the initiated statute, voters are in charge of the process from beginning to end, whereas with the legislatively referred statute, they can only approve or reject laws which their legislature votes to place before them. Of the 24 American states that have some degree of