Image by heedoo via Flickr The First Amendment to the United States Constitution guarantees “the right of the people… to petition the government for a redress of grievances.” Citizen access to the institutions of government constitutes one of the foundations upon which our republican form of government is premised. In a representative democracy government acts [...]

Here, at Constitution.org I found this: Sec. 149. THOUGH in a constituted common-wealth, standing upon its own basis, and acting according to its own nature, that is, acting for the preservation of the community, there can be but one supreme power, which is the legislative, to which all the rest are and must be subordinate, [...]