The US government is required to respond to petitions which receive more than 100,000 signatures.
From time to time, President Obama may also respond to petitions as well".
The spirit of the gathering was charitable -- the monarchy responding to petitions from commoners.
Moscow's standard response to petitions from people jailed there is "we don't control it".
The Forbes campaign later dropped its objections to petitions in four of the districts.
Read more... Local authorities will have a legal duty to respond to petitions.
There has been a proliferation of ways to sign up to and recruit others to petitions and pressure groups.
More than 40,000 names are added daily to petitions on the site, according to Kevin Matthews, its founder.
I recently counted 60 major cases of online activism, ranging from extensive blogging to heavily trafficked forums to petitions, in 2009 and 2010 alone.
Of 20 persons put to death during the 1692 witch hunt, 14 of them have had their names cleared in response to petitions signed by their families.
"If all our resources are used responding to petitions, we don't have resources to put species on the endangered species list.
