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+layout: create
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+title: Petition
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+permalink: /create/petition/
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+community-name:
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+mission:
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+values: Every member's voice should have the chance to be heard in decision making.
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+structure: All members have potentially equal voice in a direct democracy. Volunteer community administrators, who are invited by other administrators, carry out the community's decisions.
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+membership:
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+removal: A member may be removed if a petition for their removal passes.
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+decisions: All policies and governance actions in the community are initiated by petition. Any member can start a petition. If $NUMBER percent of the membership signs it, the content of the petition becomes a referendum in which all members are invited to vote. If 2/3 of the votes are in favor of the petition after 1 week, it passes.
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+deliberation: When a petition goes before the community, the petitioner must organize at least one synchronous discussion session open to all members in the first half of the voting period.
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+implementation: Administrators are responsible for carrying out the outcomes of the petition process.
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+oversight: The petition process may be used to remove administrators if they are deemed non-compliant with community policies, and the petition process may also be used to reverse the outcomes of previous processes.
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+limits: Administrators reserve the right to refrain from implementing decisions they regard as infeasible.
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+rights: All members have the right to initiate peitions, sign them, and vote in resulting referendums.
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+agreements:
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+evolution: The petition process may be used to modify this Rule.
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+---
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