Definition of "petitioners" []

• Plural form of petitioner. (noun)

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• "The question is whether the President may try the accused by miltary commission or whether the civil courts should have jurisdiction to hear the case (which is what the Quirin petitioners were seeking)."
• "I note that the first complaint of the Quirin petitioners was essentially that such commissions were not Constitutionally sound; that they violated the Fifth and Sixth Amendment (their alternative complaint was that the manner of constituting and conducting such commissions was contrary to the statutory law, a view also rejected by the court)."
• "Mr Feng is a dissident, an economist and self-taught lawyer who made a name for himself in his native Shanghai as an advisor and advocate of China's increasing army of "petitioners" - ordinary people taking on the central and local governments for a range of alleged injustices."