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2008 Colorado Amendment 49

ballot measure in Colorado

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionMay 27, 2026
Entity authorityQ5148713 ↗
Source-derived summary

Amendment 49 was a proposed initiative on the Colorado ballot for 2008. It was defeated.

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Editorial reviewA dependable orientation record for establishing vocabulary, names and a first evidence trail. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—2008—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. The account is most persuasive where Colorado, Amendment and ballot can be independently traced.
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The subject matters to the general reference register because the source frames it as ballot measure in Colorado. Its deeper value depends on whether names, dates, institutions and citations support that framing.

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Vocabulary and entity names are the principal evidence signals here, because they determine the precision of every later search. The source revision retrieved here is dated May 27, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q5148713. None of the 0 selected statements returned an explicit reference. The first chronological checks are 2008.

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This entry incorporates text from “2008 Colorado Amendment 49” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.