popular action

plural popular actions

1. countableuncountablelawan action in which any person may sue for penalty imposed by statute.

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   A much larger proportion of men should be required to petition for an initiative than for a referendum, but in each case the regulations both as to the number of names required and as to additional guarantees where necessary should be such as to forbid the invocation of this method of securing popular action unless the measure is one of real importance, as to which there is a deep-rooted popular interest.

   1911, Theodore Roosevelt, Nationalism and Popular Rule

2. countableuncountableUsed other than figuratively or idiomatically: popular action.