Please explain in a direct and concise and plain English the differences between people's initiative and the r

Question

The differences between people's initiative and the referendum.. any political science professor want to explain this?

Answer 1

I am not a professor, but I believe the difference between an initiative and a referendum is as follows.
An initiative is when a group of people get together and write some kind of a new law and then putting it on the ballot to be voted on by the public is a referendum if it passes. Then it goes to the legislators and then it will be voted on by them. Until it passes the house and senate and signed by the President for the federal government or by the Governor for a state law. It is not law.