Petitions

A petition is a request to do something, most commonly addressed to a government official or public entity. Petitions to a deity are a form of prayer called supplication.

WYSIWYG scorewriter program

petition by French intellectuals to legalize pedophilia

statement that Croatian, Serbian, Bosnian, and Montenegrin are four varieties of a single pluricentric language

Algerian political petition

written to George III by the Second Continental Congress to avoid a full-on war between the Thirteen Colonies and Great Britain

1945 petition by 70 Manhattan Project scientists to President Truman

American petition against Kyoto Protocol and similar climate change action

1899 petition by the Finnish people to Nicholas II of Russia

thumb|right|thumbtime=68|A video by Scholarly Publishing and Academic Resources Coalition|SPARC in support of the campaign. thumb|A normalized heatmap of per-capita signatures to the petition by U.S. state. Highest support from Massachusetts (red), lowest from [[Mississippi (white).]] thumb|The Access2Research Founders, Heather Joseph, [[John Wilbanks, Michael W. Carroll and Mike Rossner after meeting at the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy.]] Access2Research is a campaign in the United States for academic journal publishing reform led by open access advocates Michael W. Car

petition present to English Parliament in 1640

thumb|Hjalmar Schacht, the main drafter of the Industrielleneingabe

2017 statement by Indigenous Australians seeking constitutional recognition and reform