{"id":645,"date":"2009-09-18T12:39:04","date_gmt":"2009-09-18T16:39:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/?p=645"},"modified":"2009-09-18T12:39:49","modified_gmt":"2009-09-18T16:39:49","slug":"in-honour-of-constitution-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/645\/in-honour-of-constitution-day\/","title":{"rendered":"In Honour of Constitution Day"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Actually, yesterday was Constitution Day but given the current environment in Washington, every day should be Constitution Day.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.wordle.net\/show\/wrdl\/1143656\/The_Constitution\" target=\"_blank\">Here<\/a> is the Constitution in a neat toy, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wordle.net\" target=\"_blank\">Wordle<\/a>.\u00a0 It is a bit surprising that the word &#8220;President&#8221; is so prominently mentioned since Article II is considerably shorter than Article I.\u00a0 Since the founders were especially suspicious of a strong executive, one would think our commander-in-chief would not be so frequently mentioned.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">But, amendments 12 (amending electoral college), 20 (shortening lame duck period), 22 (limiting office-holder to two terms), 23 (residents in D.C. can cast presidential ballot) and 25 (presidential succession) all deal with the President.<\/p>\n<p>The word &#8220;thereof&#8221; also seems frequent, likely a relic of 18th Century rhetoric.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a title=\"Wordle: The Constitution\" href=\"http:\/\/www.wordle.net\/show\/wrdl\/1143656\/The_Constitution\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"padding:4px;border:1px solid #ddd\" src=\"http:\/\/www.wordle.net\/thumb\/wrdl\/1143656\/The_Constitution\" alt=\"Wordle: The Constitution\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Actually, yesterday was Constitution Day but given the current environment in Washington, every day should be Constitution Day. Here is the Constitution in a neat toy, Wordle.\u00a0 It is a bit surprising that the word &#8220;President&#8221; is so prominently mentioned since Article II is considerably shorter than Article I.\u00a0 Since the founders were especially suspicious [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[144,145],"class_list":["post-645","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-posts","tag-constitution","tag-constitution-day"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/645","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=645"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/645\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":647,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/645\/revisions\/647"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=645"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=645"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=645"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}