{"id":12512,"date":"2014-07-12T14:50:30","date_gmt":"2014-07-12T19:50:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=12512"},"modified":"2014-07-12T14:50:30","modified_gmt":"2014-07-12T19:50:30","slug":"wapo-how-liberals-can-reclaim-the-constitution","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=12512","title":{"rendered":"WaPo: How liberals can reclaim the Constitution"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>WaPo: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/posteverything\/wp\/2014\/07\/11\/conservatives-have-been-winning-the-constitutional-debate-but-liberals-are-about-to-stage-a-comeback\/?hpid=z12\">How liberals can reclaim the Constitution<\/a> by Jack M. Balkin:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>For years, conservatives have called for taking back the Constitution.<\/p>\n<p>In one sense, that claim is deeply ironic: Conservatives have dominated the appointments to the federal courts for a generation, and over the years, they\u2019ve fundamentally reshaped voting rights, church-state relations and campaign finance regulation (to name just a few areas). <\/p>\n<p>But conservative calls for restoring a lost Constitution also make sense. The Constitution is more than a legal document: It\u2019s a shared symbol of the country and its ideals. Conservatives are engaged in a reform project \u2014 often quite radical in its implications. And every important movement for change in the United States has proclaimed that the Constitution is on its side.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>WaPo: How liberals can reclaim the Constitution by Jack M. Balkin: For years, conservatives have called for taking back the Constitution. In one sense, that claim is deeply ironic: Conservatives have dominated the appointments to the federal courts for a &hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=12512\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/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":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12512","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12512","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=12512"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12512\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12513,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12512\/revisions\/12513"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=12512"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=12512"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=12512"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}