{"id":428074,"date":"2018-10-03T18:12:17","date_gmt":"2018-10-03T18:12:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/acemystudy.com\/?p=6709"},"modified":"2018-10-24T08:35:17","modified_gmt":"2018-10-24T08:35:17","slug":"politics-history-essay-political-science-could-it-be-a-good-idea-to-reconsider-and-perhaps-re-write-the-american-constitution-every-19-years-or-so-as-thomas-jefferson-suggested","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.benedictsol.com\/blogs\/politics-history-essay-political-science-could-it-be-a-good-idea-to-reconsider-and-perhaps-re-write-the-american-constitution-every-19-years-or-so-as-thomas-jefferson-suggested\/","title":{"rendered":"Politics\/History Essay  Political science, could it be a good idea to reconsider and perhaps re-write the American Constitution every 19 years or so, as Thomas Jefferson suggested?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Thomas Jefferson argued: \u201cNo society can make a perpetual constitution, or even a<br \/>\nperpetual law. The earth belongs always to the living generation. Every constitution<br \/>\nthen, and even every law, naturally expires at the end of 19 years.\u201d Would it be a good<br \/>\nidea to reconsider and perhaps re-write the American Constitution every 19 years or so,<br \/>\nas Thomas Jefferson suggested? If so, why? If not, why not?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Thomas Jefferson argued: \u201cNo society can make a perpetual constitution, or even a perpetual law. The earth belongs always to the living generation. Every constitution then, and even every law, naturally expires at the end of 19 years.\u201d Would it <a href=\"https:\/\/www.benedictsol.com\/blogs\/politics-history-essay-political-science-could-it-be-a-good-idea-to-reconsider-and-perhaps-re-write-the-american-constitution-every-19-years-or-so-as-thomas-jefferson-suggested\/\" class=\"read-more\">Read More &#8230;<\/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":[],"class_list":["post-428074","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.benedictsol.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/428074","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.benedictsol.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.benedictsol.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.benedictsol.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.benedictsol.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=428074"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.benedictsol.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/428074\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.benedictsol.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=428074"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.benedictsol.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=428074"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.benedictsol.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=428074"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}