{"id":1069,"date":"2004-08-06T14:18:08","date_gmt":"2004-08-06T18:18:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wordpress\/2004\/08\/another_constitutional_amendme\/"},"modified":"2004-08-06T14:18:08","modified_gmt":"2004-08-06T18:18:08","slug":"another_constitutional_amendme","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/2004\/08\/another_constitutional_amendme\/","title":{"rendered":"Another Constitutional Amendment"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I hadn&#8217;t heard about <a href=\"http:\/\/www.guardian.co.uk\/worldlatest\/story\/0,1280,-4393618,00.html\">this one<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>On other points, Bush:<br \/>\n-Said he would consider supporting a constitutional amendment guaranteeing every American the right to vote in federal elections. &#8220;I can understand why African Americans in particular are worried about being able to vote since the vote had been denied for so long in the South in particular.&#8221; He said Congress had approved $3 billion for states and local governments to make sure the voting process is fair.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Uh, I thought we already had something in the Constitution that addressed this.  I guess it&#8217;s the trendy thing these days to propose a constitutional amendment to address every single situation that rubs someone the wrong way.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<a href=\"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/2004\/08\/another_constitutional_amendme\/\" rel=\"bookmark\" title=\"Permalink to Another Constitutional Amendment\"><p>I hadn&#8217;t heard about this one: On other points, Bush: -Said he would consider supporting a constitutional amendment guaranteeing every American the right to vote in federal elections. &#8220;I can understand why African Americans in particular are worried about being able to vote since the vote had been denied for so long in the South [&hellip;]<\/p>\n<\/a>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mi_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-1069","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-uncategorized","7":"h-entry","8":"hentry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1069","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1069"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1069\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1069"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1069"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1069"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}