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What Do You Think About Petitions in the Nineteenth Century?
Tyler Drexler: What do you analytically see as the major effect of petitions, apart from any particular case? He says we're in a different world now, especially in the united states, where i don't think petitions have quite the socital and historical imprint that they used to. Nowadays, we could say social media. Somebody could jump on the social media and say, hey, look at this awful statement i just got. And then you get a bunch of likes. So it's some kind of aggregation mechanism like that that can do that. But i don't think we have the kinds of institutions that we used to impart because we don't have a petition institution that