{"id":839,"date":"2024-04-04T12:47:46","date_gmt":"2024-04-04T12:47:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2024\/04\/04\/amendments-or-addenda\/"},"modified":"2024-04-04T12:47:46","modified_gmt":"2024-04-04T12:47:46","slug":"amendments-or-addenda","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2024\/04\/04\/amendments-or-addenda\/","title":{"rendered":"Amendments or Addenda?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino; font-size: 14pt;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/billofrightsinstitute.org\/primary-sources\/bill-of-rights\">The Bill of Rights<\/a>. Amendments or additions? A reasonable question and a good distinction.&#0160; <em>Addenda<\/em>. I owe the point and the distinction to James Soriano. It&#39;s obvious when you think about it, but the question hadn&#39;t occurred to me.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino; font-size: 14pt;\">And always give credit where credit us due, else you&#39;ll end up like the Big Guy, a terminally unrepentant serial plagiarist and an &#39;inspiration&#39; to such other &#39;presidents&#39; as Claudine Gay.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino; font-size: 14pt;\">Distinctions are the lifeblood of thought.&#0160;<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Bill of Rights. Amendments or additions? A reasonable question and a good distinction.&#0160; Addenda. I owe the point and the distinction to James Soriano. It&#39;s obvious when you think about it, but the question hadn&#39;t occurred to me. And always give credit where credit us due, else you&#39;ll end up like the Big Guy, &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2024\/04\/04\/amendments-or-addenda\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Amendments or Addenda?&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[380,16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-839","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-distinctions","category-u-s-constitution"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/839","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=839"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/839\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=839"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=839"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=839"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}