, as a practical matter, facilitate or frustrate alternative outcomes.169 In general, as Schmitt recognized, the people’s ability to express itself directly is drastically limited. It is confined to the propositions that the organizers of the referendum put before it. It can dispose but not propose.170 It is impossible for the people to state its will with nuance or qualification. It cannot reconsider and revise. Even these crude expressions of its will may be rendered only infrequently.