{"id":384,"date":"2007-07-25T14:19:38","date_gmt":"2007-07-25T14:19:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/fierce.jnfr.com\/fp-wp\/?p=384"},"modified":"2007-07-25T14:19:38","modified_gmt":"2007-07-25T14:19:38","slug":"more-from-the-founding-fathers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fierce.jnfr.com\/?p=384","title":{"rendered":"More from the Founding Fathers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Does <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ushistory.org\/declaration\/document\/index.htm\">any of this<\/a> sound familiar?<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>He has refused his Assent to Laws, the most wholesome and necessary for the public good&#8230;.<\/p>\n<p>He has obstructed the Administration of Justice by refusing his Assent to Laws for establishing Judiciary Powers&#8230;.<\/p>\n<p>He has affected to render the Military independent of and superior to the Civil Power&#8230;.<\/p>\n<p>For depriving us in many cases, of the benefit of Trial by Jury:<\/p>\n<p>For transporting us beyond Seas to be tried for pretended offences:&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>For taking away our Charters, abolishing our most valuable Laws and altering fundamentally the Forms of our Governments:<\/p>\n<p>For suspending our own Legislatures, and declaring themselves invested with power to legislate for us in all cases whatsoever&#8230;.<\/p>\n<p>He has plundered our seas, ravaged our coasts, burnt our towns, and destroyed the lives of our people.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><P>We don&#8217;t need or want another King.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Does any of this sound familiar? He has refused his Assent to Laws, the most wholesome and necessary for the public good&#8230;. He has obstructed the Administration of Justice by refusing his Assent to Laws for establishing Judiciary Powers&#8230;. He has affected to render the Military independent of and superior to the Civil Power&#8230;. For depriving us in many cases, of the benefit of Trial by Jury: For transporting us beyond Seas to be tried for pretended offences:&#8230; For taking away our Charters, abolishing our most valuable Laws and altering fundamentally the Forms of our Governments: For suspending our own <span class=\"excerpt-dots\">&hellip;<\/span> <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/fierce.jnfr.com\/?p=384\"><span class=\"more-msg\">Continue reading &rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[28],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-384","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bush"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p13tCM-6c","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/fierce.jnfr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/384","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/fierce.jnfr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/fierce.jnfr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fierce.jnfr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fierce.jnfr.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=384"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/fierce.jnfr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/384\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/fierce.jnfr.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=384"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fierce.jnfr.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=384"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fierce.jnfr.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=384"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}