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Our Right...
The right to petition your government is enshrined in the First Amendment of the United States Constitution. The Obama Administration recently launched the "We the People" section of Whitehouse.gov. Now, anyone can petition the White House for anything, and a petition that gets 25,000 electronic signatures will get an official review.