Opinion ID: 1155549
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Heading: threadgill [7] and its progeny

Text: Threadgill, which enjoyed full and unlimited sway from 1910 until 1975, [8] teaches that an initiative petition need only pass a procedural threshold test to qualify for submission to a vote of the people. It must (a) be in substantial compliance with the sine qua non procedural requirements for submission and bear the requisite number of valid signatures, (b) address but a single subject [9] and (c) be upon a subject not explicitly excluded from the people's lawmaking power. [10] Unless a fatal procedural impediment be found, the petition must be cleared for a vote. All constitutional challenges to the content must await the measure's adoption as enforceable law and be presented in the context of a lively forensic controversy between antagonistic adversaries with legal standing to press challenges. [11] Threadgill should be kept in full force because it raises a necessary barrier of insulation between judicature and initiative lawmaking. The former is a function of judges, the latter of the people. B.