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Definition of Local option
1. Noun. Freedom of a local government to determine by popular vote the applicability of a controversial law in their jurisdiction.
Lexicographical Neighbors of Local Option
Literary usage of Local option
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Notes and Queries by Martim de Albuquerque (1907)
"It is said, gentlemen, that we are asked to vote for a principle which is called
local option."—WE Gladstone, 26 Nov., 1879, in 'Political Speeches in ..."
2. The Encyclopedia Americana: A Library of Universal Knowledge (1919)
"The phrase local option may be applied to a great variety of matters which may
... In 1868 Massachusetts recognized the local option principle in its liquor ..."
3. Cyclopedia of American Government by Andrew Cunningham McLaughlin, Albert Bushnell Hart (1914)
"Although the principle of local option is by no means new, ... Massachusetts was
probably the first state to give the local option principle recognition in ..."
4. The Police Power, Public Policy and Constitutional Rights by Ernst Freund (1904)
"local option. —The most common form of local power of prohibition is that of
local option, which is found in about half of the states of the Union. ..."
5. The Police Power, Public Policy and Constitutional Rights by Ernst Freund (1904)
"local option.—The most common form of local power of prohibition is that of local
option, which is found in about half of the states of the Union. ..."
6. Studies in History, Economics, and Public Law by Lawrence Henry Chamberlain (1912)
"County local-option elections were held in 1880, 1884 and 1908. ... In a local-
option election in 1895 the only license precinct was carried for no-license ..."
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