That the ability for the President to send contentious issues for referenda is something we sorely lack.
All the bill signer can do here if s/he opposes a bill and only if it is unconstitutional is to a: sign it into law and hope someone brings a case to the supreme court about its apparent unconstitutionality. Or b: refuse to sign it and send it to the supreme court herself/himself and let them debate the constitutionality of it. If they find that it is constitutional that bill becomes locked in a sense and can't be touched again. Hence the bill signer tends to sign it almost always.
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