Lobbying has caused the concept of lawmaking based solely on corporate petition, rather than individual petition. Trade groups and other organizations fight against this in many ways, but non-profits cannot match a company in funding. The rise in technological ability to petition the government directly enables us to abolish this policy to create a more directly democratic process. Corporations would still be able to contribute to government process through advocacy: indirectly influencing the government through polls, friend of the court briefs, public discussion, and more, but would be unable to directly interact with politicians except for through the same mechanisms a normal citizen can access.



