{"id":1432,"date":"2004-09-19T18:52:38","date_gmt":"2004-09-20T02:52:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ogre.nu\/wp\/?p=1432"},"modified":"2004-11-12T08:50:29","modified_gmt":"2004-11-12T16:50:29","slug":"the-law-is-an-ass","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bendwavy.org\/wp\/?p=1432","title":{"rendered":"the law is an ass"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Looking up the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.leginfo.ca.gov\/.const\/.article_3\">Constitution of the State of California<\/a> for a discussion on secession, I noticed this doubly odd provision (article 3 section 2):<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\nThe boundaries of the State are those stated in the Constitution of 1849 as modified pursuant to statute. Sacramento is the capital of California.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Why incorporate a superseded law by reference rather than explicitly?  And why put in the constitution something that is subject to alteration by ordinary statute?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Looking up the Constitution of the State of California for a discussion on secession, I noticed this doubly odd provision (article 3 section 2): The boundaries of the State are those stated in the Constitution of 1849 as modified pursuant &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/bendwavy.org\/wp\/?p=1432\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1432","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-constitution"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bendwavy.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1432","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bendwavy.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bendwavy.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bendwavy.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bendwavy.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1432"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bendwavy.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1432\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bendwavy.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1432"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bendwavy.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1432"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bendwavy.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1432"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}