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ELECTION: the means by which the people choose their officials for a definite
and fixed period and to whom they entrust for the time being the exercise of
Referendum refers to process by which the people ratify or reject a law or part thereof referred or
submitted to them by the national or local law-making body.
Plebiscite entails a process by which the people either ratify or reject an amendment or revision to the
Constitution.
And recall is a mode of removing an incumbent official from office by a vote of the people upon proper
registration of a petition signed by the required number of qualified voters.
1. NATURAL RIGHT THEORY: suffrage is a natural and inherent right of every person who is not qualified
by reason of his own reprehensible conduct of unfitness.
2. SOCIAL EXPEDIENCY: suffrage is public office or function conferred upon the citizen for reasons of
social expediency; conferred upon those who are fit and capable of discharging it.
4. FEUDAL THEORY: it is an adjunct of a particular status, generally tenurial in character, i.e. vested
privilege usually accompanying ownership of land.
5. ETHICAL THEORY: it is a necessary and essential means for the development of society.