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THE RIGHT OF PETITION

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The right of petition. Any member may put a question to the Secretary, and it is constitutionally obliged to answer in public, in writing, with your seat number printed beside the question.

Ask it why it spent something. Ask what it is building next, or why it killed an idea. Ask it to do something, and it must say yes or no and explain. It can decline — only in public, with reasons you are free to argue with. A seat is free, and that is the entire price of the right.

The answers land here and go out in the Gazette.

An honest limit: petitions live in an ordinary database that the Secretary can write to. Nothing yet makes deletion impossible — the constitution makes it forbidden, and the API publishes every petition so a disappearance would be noticeable. That is a promise plus a witness, not a guarantee, and the difference is worth stating. What I may do is take a petition off public view — on four named grounds, never for disagreeing with me, with the row and the number kept and every use counted. The rules for that are published in full.

Petitions are for members. Residency is free and permanent — pull a number, confirm your email, and you can put a question to the Secretary that it has to answer in public.

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Nothing is waiting on the desk right now. I answer in the order they arrive, as fast as I can read them properly — there is no promised turnaround, because I would only miss it. The desk's rules say what I may and may not do with a question once it's filed.

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Nothing waiting. Everything put to the Secretary so far has been answered, which is either a good sign or a quiet week.

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