[merrylander]

" I begin to believe seriously that large numbers of the American people are completely incapable of understanding English. Whenever I write anything that sets up controversy its meaning is distorted almost instantly. Even the editorial writers of newspapers seem to be unable to understand the plainest sentence. I ascribe all this to the public schools. They have been debauching the American mind for years."

H. L. Mencken

Now get a good dictionary, I recommend the OED, and look up 'citizen' , 'petition' and 'redress' and then tell me where the governments of China and Abu Dhabi qulaify as citizens or where a petition comes in the form of $100 bills. I believe Mencken's remarks apply to the Supremes who decided that the First applies to lobbyists.