This Friday, Sept. 23, 2011, photo, shows a pamphlet for Proposition 2, an education initiative that was on the 1952 ballot, at the California State Archives in Sacramento, Calif. The California initiative process marks its 100 anniversary this week. At that time the ballot argument read, the slate of reforms would hand ultimate power to the people and compel lawmakers to avoid unwise deal-making with moneyed special interests. A century later, the initiative process has become as quintessentially California as sunshine and opportunity, even if it has left a legacy of unintended consequences. (AP Photo/Rich Pedroncelli)