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You the lawmaker

By Channel 4 News

Updated on 21 November 2008

If you could pass one law, what would it be? More4 News wants your ideas.

We're inviting you to become you the lawmaker - to take part in creating new legislation.

Next month MPs will hold a ballot for which of them gets to put forward a private member's bill (PMBs).

Those who win will be lobbied fervently by pressure groups and interested parties with their pet projects.

But we want your suggestions. We'll pick out the best and put them before the MPs with the power to take them forward.

It can be anything you like - the abolition of the death penalty and the legalisation of abortion both started life as PMBs - but the bills with the most chance of success tend to ones that will command widespread support across parliament.

Email your ideas to us at more4news@channel4.com, and we'll invite the senders of the best proposals to make a short film, which we'll present to the winners of the ballot on 11 December.

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