Submitted on Friday 20th October 2017
Rejected on Monday 20th November 2017
Current status: Rejected
Rejection code: no-action (see below for details)
A referendum to question whether Parliament or the Electorate is Sovereign.
The electorate - those citizens of voting age, represent the clearest united voice of a society. Representative democracy presents systemic risks to the law of the land. Allowing for an additional branch of Government to check and balance elected representatives would limit suffering and injustice.
Following the example of Switzerland, allowing the electorate access to either creating or striking law by a declared referendum (say if 2%, 900,000 voters, of the electorate sign a petition, it proceeds to referendum). https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Voting_in_Switzerland
Referendum rules and regulations can be set accordingly, minimum voter turnout settings certainly applied. In a system designed by humans, even the Sovereign must be checked in case of error.
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The Government e-Petitions Team gave the following reason:
Petitions need to call on the Government or Parliament to take a specific action.
You could start a new petition explaining clearly what you would like the Government or Parliament to do.
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