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plebs
Latin · ancient
"the common people"
the common people, combined with scitum (a decree)
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Stage 2 of 3
plebiscite
French · 1500s
"a direct vote of the common people"
carried into French political vocabulary for a direct vote of the people
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Stage 3 of 3
plebiscite
English · 1700s
"a direct popular vote on an important political question"
settled as the English word for a direct popular vote on an important issue
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