# Submitting a Proposal (CLI)

[Governance proposals](https://hub.cosmos.network/main/governance/) target the parameters of specific modules. Go to the [list of modules](https://docs.cosmos.network/master/modules/), and go to the 'parameters' tab for the module you are interested in.

You can query the current setting for that parameter with sourced query params subspace \[module] \[parameter]. For example, to query [the communitytax param in distribution](https://docs.cosmos.network/master/modules/distribution/07_params.html), you would do:

```
sourced query params subspace distribution communitytax
```

NB: if you have not set it in config, you will need to add chain-id: --chain-id sourcechain-testnet

This will return:

```
key: communitytax
subspace: distribution
value: '"0.020000000000000000"'
```

You can query [BaseApp](https://docs.cosmos.network/master/core/baseapp.html) parameters as well:

```
sourced query params subspace baseapp BlockParams
```

This will return:

```
key: BlockParams
subspace: baseapp
value: '{"max_bytes":"22020096","max_gas":"80000000"}'
```

Let's take this BlockParams parameter as an example. Say we want to create a proposal that increases this value.

We can encode the parameter change in a JSON proposal like so:

```
{
  "title": "Governance Proposal to add maximum per block gas",
  "description": "To stop potential attacks against the network via the use of malicious smart contracts, we need to set a max per block gas limit. From testing on the Source Chain testnet, the core team feel this value is a good starting point, and it can be increased in future if necessary.",
  "changes": [{
    "key": "BlockParams",
    "subspace": "baseapp",
    "value": {
      "max_gas": "100000000"
    }
  }],
  "deposit": "10000000usource"
}
```

We can then submit it:

```
sourced tx gov submit-proposal param-change ./max_block_gas_proposal.json --from sourceuser --fees 5000usource --gas auto
```

Other types of proposals include community-pool-spend and software-upgrade/cancel-software-upgrade.


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