{"id":4624,"date":"2014-05-15T11:10:22","date_gmt":"2014-05-15T18:10:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bone-in-the-throat.com\/Blog\/?p=4624"},"modified":"2021-01-08T19:37:30","modified_gmt":"2021-01-09T03:37:30","slug":"i-re-read-this-today","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bone-in-the-throat.com\/Blog\/2014\/05\/15\/i-re-read-this-today\/","title":{"rendered":"I re-read this today."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Yes, I know it&rsquo;s weird.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>I re-read The Constitution about once or twice a year.<\/p>\n<p>When I was testing printers for a living, I often Printed The Constitution as a test case. It was my way of making sure that people who might otherwise have never read the document had an opportunity to.<\/p>\n<p>It&rsquo;s surprising how many people haven&rsquo;t read it, and equally surprising how many people came to my cubicle asking for me to print copies for them.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>We should remember that The Constitution is a document that defines our government <strong>AND<\/strong> its <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong>limits<\/strong><\/span>. &nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>You don&rsquo;t have to be a constitutional scholar to read The Constitution. It is a remarkably straight forward document to build a nation on. &nbsp;I&rsquo;ve alway believed that the directness of the language was intentional, and the document was to be comprehensible to the general public.<\/p>\n<p>I once had a grand time citing Amendment VII as my reason for refusing to enter into binding arbitration. I was probably citing and using the Amendment incorrectly. &nbsp;Nonetheless, I did get out of the HR department of a company I worked for, without losing my right to have legal representation and trial by jury if it became necessary.<\/p>\n<p>Allow me to introduce you to my friend,<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"constitution.pdf\" href=\"https:\/\/bone-in-the-throat.com\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/constitution.pdf\">The Constitution of the United States<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Happy reading.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p>With gratitude to&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin: 0px; font-size: 9.5px;\">National Constitution Center<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin: 0px; font-size: 9.5px;\">525 Arch Street<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin: 0px; font-size: 9.5px;\">Independence Mall<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin: 0px; font-size: 9.5px;\">Philadelphia, PA 19106<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin: 0px; font-size: 9.5px;\">(215) 409-6600<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin: 0px; font-size: 12px;\">www.constitutioncenter.org<\/p>\n<p>For producing a very nice PDF of this document.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yes, I know it&rsquo;s weird.&nbsp; I re-read The Constitution about once or twice a year. When I was testing printers for a living, I often Printed The Constitution as a test case. It was my way of making sure that people who might otherwise have never read the document had an opportunity to. It&rsquo;s surprising &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/bone-in-the-throat.com\/Blog\/2014\/05\/15\/i-re-read-this-today\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;I re-read this today.&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[104,53],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4624","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-government","category-the-law"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bone-in-the-throat.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4624","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bone-in-the-throat.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bone-in-the-throat.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bone-in-the-throat.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bone-in-the-throat.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4624"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/bone-in-the-throat.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4624\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4626,"href":"https:\/\/bone-in-the-throat.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4624\/revisions\/4626"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bone-in-the-throat.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4624"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bone-in-the-throat.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4624"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bone-in-the-throat.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4624"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}