Moreover, the direct petitioning of the EPA could prove awkward for the Republican ticket, owing to the insistence among many in the GOP that the agency is a hindrance and should be eliminated.
"Giving people the right to direct-petition for the redress of grievances is sloppy, but that's the way that democracy works," said Douglas Muzzio, a professor at the School of Public Affairs at Baruch College, acknowledging that the city faces legitimate security issues.
He continued working as a kind of procurator for the natives of the Indies, many of whom directed petitions to him to speak to the Emperor on their behalf.
(It helps to direct a petition at a specific target rather than at "the government" or "humanity").
As this threatened Brazilian endemic is the inspiration for the World Cup's chirpy animated mascot Fuleco, I directed the petition to FIFA's head of corporate social responsibility Federico Addiechi.
Since this was a project Mr Schrader conceived, wrote and directed, we petition online the producers, Grindstone Pictures, Lionsgate Films and Red Granite Film to make sure Schrader and Cage's version of the film is seen to the public as the director intended!
Environmental groups say direct regulation through petition is surer and faster.
But convicts like Syed, who have not succeeded in those direct appeals, must petition the special appeals court to hear their case, a process similar to how US supreme court cases are chosen.
A petition directed at Wisconsin's governor, Scott Walker, on Change.org has 6,300 supporters, but the governor has said that he will grant no pardons.
An online petition directed at the White House in the wake of the Ferguson shooting that sought a requirement for law enforcement personnel to wear body cameras attracted almost 155,000 signatures before an Obama administration official responded to it in September.
