Although the publicly created bills would get proposed in parliament, there would be no guarantee that they would receive Government backing.
Part of the plans would involve closing down the e-petition section of the Downing Street website, established under Labour, and relaunching it in a new format on the Directgov public services website. In doing so, e-petitions would become the responsibility of all government departments.
The government is also reportedly considering how petitions could be converted on to Facebook and other social media sites so voters can keep in touch with one another as they campaign for a particular issue.
The move is the latest attempt by the Coalition to allow voters greater participation in Government, shifting power away from the state to the people.
In the summer, Nick Clegg, the Deputy Prime Minister, unveiled the Your Freedom initiative, which called on voters to nominate unpopular laws they want scrapped.
The public was also invited earlier this year to submit ideas for how the Government could slash spending ahead of the Comprehensive Spending Review.
Under the old Downing Street petitioning system, established under Tony Blair, anyone who signed a petition that reached more than 500 signatures would be sent a government response by email.
The most popular ? with 1.8m signatures ? was a call for the scrapping of "the planned vehicle tracking and road pricing policy."
A one-word petition calling for the prime minister to resign received more than 70,000 signatures, with only a slightly smaller number calling for him to be replaced by Jeremy Clarkson.
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