The Power Is the People’s | Theodore Roosevelt, Ohio, 1912.
In 1912, Theodore Roosevelt came to Columbus to address the Ohio Constitutional Convention as delegates reconsidered how power should be shared between government and the people.In his landmark speech, A Charter of Democracy, Roosevelt argued that initiative and referendum should give citizens a direct path to act when representative government fails to represent them. Later that year, Ohio voters approved constitutional amendments establishing those powers.More than a century later, his message still resonates:“The power is the people’s, and only the people’s.”This special presentation of…
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