A Quick Note:

For those who are still having difficulty with the small number of people not understanding the difference between a Mandate and a petition, the following, from the Oxford English Dictionary (O.E.D) will assist. Please feel free to print this out and have on hand when needed.

Mandate; 1. A command, order, injunction. To command, enjoin. 2. To give a Mandate to, to delegate authority to ( a representative, group, organisation, etc.). Permitted to act on behalf of a group, etc., approved by means of a mandate. 3. Doctor’s mandate: a mandate from the people empowering the government to take extreme measures in the national interest. (Note that the empowerment comes from the people.) (4. Doctor’s orders: instructions from one’s physician; any injunctions which cannot be evaded.)

Petition; 1. The action of formally asking, begging, supplicating, or humbly requesting; to ask, supplicate, or formally beg. 2. A supplication or prayer; an entreaty; a solemn and humble prayer to the Deity, or to a sovereign or superior; also, one of the clauses of a prayer, e.g. of the Lord’s prayer. 3. A formally drawn up request or supplication, esp. a written supplication from an individual or body of inferiors to a superior, or to a person or body in authority (as a sovereign or legislature), soliciting some favour, privilege, right, or mercy, or the redress of some wrong or grievance. (Sorry, I am not inferior to our legislators) 4. To address or present a petition to; to make a humble request or supplication to; spec. to address a formal written request to (a sovereign, a legislative body, person in authority, or court.) 5. To solicit. 6. To address or present a petition, to make a petition, to make a humble request or entreaty, to ask humbly (for something).

Some on the petition bandwagon (very few) still claim some power from the Petition of Right without understanding that document. It was the parliamentary declaration of the rights and liberties of the people, set forth in the form of a petition to King Charles 1, which was finally assented to by the King in 1628. Although not a formal statute or ordinance, ‘it has ever been accepted as having the full force of law’. (See also 4a. which covers Petition of Right: an ancient Common Law remedy against the Crown for obtaining possession or restitution of real or personal property.) The confusion comes from claiming the Petition of Right extends to all people for all grievances. However, a little research reveals that the right to petition is an inalienable right and the people may request at any time, anything they want. The problem is beggars cannot demand. The Petition of Right relates specifically to the one matter, that of claiming property from the Crown.

There is a meeting being organised for Brisbane in about a month’s time at a large venue. Date, time and venue to be advised. We are wanting people from wherever to come to that meeting. As many as possible in order that we may get the message out to the people of Brisbane.

Victoria coming on stream to the Mandate web-site, and Tassie as well. The new web-site address is http://www.peoplemandate.com The Mandate bush fire burns stronger and the convict outfits will be available as soon as possible and now being made in two different places.