What is the test for seeking the meaning of a statute?

As the foregoing discussion shows, "[t]o seek the meaning of a statute is not simply to look up dictionary definitions and then stitch together the results. Rather, it is to discern the sense of the statute, and therefore its words, in the legal and broader culture. Obviously, a statute has no meaning apart from its words. Similarly, its words have no meaning apart from the world in which they are spoken." (Kopp v. Fair Pol. Practices Com. (1995) 11 Cal.4th 607, 673, 47 Cal.Rptr.2d 108, 905 P.2d 1248 (conc. opn. of Mosk J.), italics in original.) We do not interpret the meaning or intended application of a legislative enactment in a vacuum. In the case of a voters' initiative statute, too, we may not properly interpret the measure in a way that the electorate did not contemplate: the voters should get what they enacted, not more and not less.