{"id":4362,"date":"2011-12-15T15:12:00","date_gmt":"2011-12-15T21:12:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/?p=4362"},"modified":"2011-12-15T15:13:08","modified_gmt":"2011-12-15T21:13:08","slug":"happy-bill-of-rights-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/election\/happy-bill-of-rights-day\/","title":{"rendered":"Happy Bill of Rights Day!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.miamiherald.com\/2011\/12\/12\/2543698\/tweet-for-freedom-on-dec-15.html\">Tweet for freedom on Dec. 15 &#8211; From Our Inbox &#8211; MiamiHerald.com<\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The irony is that most of us honor the Fourth of July because we believe it\u2019s a day on which Americans secured their freedom. But the truth is that <font style=\"background-color: #ffc000\">the Declaration of Independence really only secured freedom for white and wealthy men<\/font> [mjh: landowners]. It took freedom of speech, press, religion, petition and assembly \u2014 the five freedoms of the First Amendment \u2014 to lead to suffrage for women, the emancipation of slaves and equality for all. Please join in celebrating freedom this Dec. 15. It\u2019s long overdue. <\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.miamiherald.com\/2011\/12\/12\/2543698\/tweet-for-freedom-on-dec-15.html\">Tweet for freedom on Dec. 15 &#8211; From Our Inbox &#8211; MiamiHerald.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p>No modern committee, especially one full of attorneys, I\u2019m sorry to say, could come up with such a succinct yet powerful document. Two hundred-twenty years later, we are still striving to get there, but we have the map. The Constitution is a living document subject to the times. Claiming \u201coriginal intent\u201d is the height of arrogance and ignorance. <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/newmexiken.com\/2011\/12\/the-bill-of-rights-7\/?utm_source=feedburner&amp;utm_medium=feed&amp;utm_campaign=Feed%3A+NewMexiKen+%28NewMexiKen%29\">The Bill of Rights | NewMexiKen<\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Originally 12 amendments were proposed to the legislatures of the 14 states by the First Congress. [read more\u2026]<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/newmexiken.com\/2011\/12\/the-bill-of-rights-7\/?utm_source=feedburner&amp;utm_medium=feed&amp;utm_campaign=Feed%3A+NewMexiKen+%28NewMexiKen%29\">The Bill of Rights | NewMexiKen<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tweet for freedom on Dec. 15 &#8211; From Our Inbox &#8211; MiamiHerald.com The irony is that most of us honor the Fourth of July because we believe it\u2019s a day on which Americans secured their freedom. But the truth is that the Declaration of Independence really only secured freedom for white and wealthy men [mjh: &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/election\/happy-bill-of-rights-day\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Happy Bill of Rights Day!<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[44],"class_list":["post-4362","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-election","tag-newmexiken-2"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4362","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4362"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4362\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4362"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4362"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4362"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}