How do citizens come together to change or eliminate laws?

Question

Of the millions of Municipal, County, State and Federal laws, how can citizens pull together to have changes to various statutes brought forth for public debate and vote?

Answer 1

The simplest, most direct way for the people to change or eliminate bad law is 'Jury Nullification'. What this means is simply this: If the law itself is 'bad', the Jury disregards the Judges instructions to come back with a guilty/not guilty verdict and instead comes back as 'hung' or with a 'not guilty' verdict despite the evidence. Let me tell you, the hate and vile, arrogant rage you see in peoples faces when you dare to 'buck their system' is more than enough to justify doing it!

Answer 2

Many states have an initiative process whereby with enough signatures, a bill can be put on a public ballot without the involvement of the legistlature. Beyond that, you have to put a lot of work in to organize letter-writing and phone campaigns to force your elected representatives to take action. This is very difficult, but can certainly be done if enough people have the motivation. Laws on the books have enormous inertia, so it takes a lot of people doing a lot of work to budge them.

Answer 3

Some states have referendums and initiatives. For the US government there are lobbyists.
Get you people together with a good idea. Present it to your elected officials. Ask them to write up a bill and present it for a vote.

Answer 4

Pressuring the lawmakers

Answer 5

I don't know. I have written my representatives on several occasions asking the same question. No answer.