{"id":203,"date":"2010-10-02T17:08:07","date_gmt":"2010-10-02T22:08:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.timrosenblatt.com\/blog\/2010\/10\/02\/constitutional-idolatry\/"},"modified":"2010-10-02T17:08:07","modified_gmt":"2010-10-02T22:08:07","slug":"constitutional-idolatry","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.timrosenblatt.com\/blog\/2010\/10\/02\/constitutional-idolatry\/","title":{"rendered":"Constitutional Idolatry"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>The constitution is a thing of wonder, all the more miraculous for  having been written when the rest of the world\u2019s peoples were still  under the boot of kings and emperors (with the magnificent exception of  Britain\u2019s constitutional monarchy, of course). But many of the  tea-partiers have invented a strangely ahistorical version of it. For  example, they say that the framers\u2019 aim was to check the central  government and protect the rights of the states. In fact the  constitution of 1787 set out to do the opposite: to bolster the centre  and weaken the power the states had briefly enjoyed under the new  republic\u2019s Articles of Confederation of 1777.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.economist.com\/node\/17103701\">The perils of constitution-worship<\/a>, The Economist<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The constitution is a thing of wonder, all the more miraculous for having been written when the rest of the world\u2019s peoples were still under the boot of kings and emperors (with the magnificent exception of Britain\u2019s constitutional monarchy, of course). But many of the tea-partiers have invented a strangely ahistorical version of it. For &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.timrosenblatt.com\/blog\/2010\/10\/02\/constitutional-idolatry\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Constitutional Idolatry&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.timrosenblatt.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/203"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.timrosenblatt.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.timrosenblatt.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.timrosenblatt.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.timrosenblatt.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=203"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.timrosenblatt.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/203\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.timrosenblatt.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=203"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.timrosenblatt.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=203"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.timrosenblatt.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=203"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}