{"id":2299,"date":"2021-12-11T03:29:47","date_gmt":"2021-12-11T03:29:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2021\/12\/11\/ignorance-of-the-law-is-no-excuse\/"},"modified":"2021-12-11T03:29:47","modified_gmt":"2021-12-11T03:29:47","slug":"ignorance-of-the-law-is-no-excuse","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2021\/12\/11\/ignorance-of-the-law-is-no-excuse\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;Ignorance of the Law is No Excuse&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino; font-size: 13pt;\">AN EMINENTLY REASONABLE PRINCIPLE, but only if the law can be known by the average citizen who exercises appropriate diligence.&#0160; For that exercise of due diligence to be possible, however, laws must be relatively few in number, rational in content, and plainly stated.&#0160; If that were the case, then ignorance of the law would be vincible ignorance and thus no excuse or defense.&#0160; But it is not now the case.&#0160;&#0160;<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>AN EMINENTLY REASONABLE PRINCIPLE, but only if the law can be known by the average citizen who exercises appropriate diligence.&#0160; For that exercise of due diligence to be possible, however, laws must be relatively few in number, rational in content, and plainly stated.&#0160; If that were the case, then ignorance of the law would be &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2021\/12\/11\/ignorance-of-the-law-is-no-excuse\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;&#8220;Ignorance of the Law is No Excuse&#8221;&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[69,265,99,153],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2299","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-aphorisms-and-observations","category-ignorance","category-law-philosophy-of","category-morality-and-legality"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2299","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2299"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2299\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2299"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2299"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2299"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}