petitioning

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Petitioning the government for a redress of grievances is a right guaranteed under the First Amendment.

From Seattle Times • Feb. 5, 2024

Petitioning the court to separate children from their parents was time-consuming and expensive.

From New York Times • Dec. 1, 2021

Petitioning one’s government is all well and good.

From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 15, 2021

Petitioning was – and remains – the true people’s will at work.

From The Guardian • Mar. 30, 2019

Thorwaldsen is abundantly represented by his Night and Morning, and his bas-reliefs of Priam Petitioning for the Body of Hector, and Briseis, taken from Achilles by the Heralds.

From The International Monthly, Volume 5, No. 3, March, 1852 by Various