{"id":1878,"date":"2022-03-05T18:02:27","date_gmt":"2022-03-06T02:02:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/treehousewriters.com\/wp53\/?p=1878"},"modified":"2022-03-05T18:02:27","modified_gmt":"2022-03-06T02:02:27","slug":"a-few-words-about-the-us-constitution","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/treehousewriters.com\/wp53\/2022\/03\/05\/a-few-words-about-the-us-constitution\/","title":{"rendered":"A Few Words About the US Constitution"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/thenewpress.com\/books\/allow-me-retort\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft \" src=\"https:\/\/thenewpress.com\/sites\/default\/files\/covers\/allow_me_to_retort_final.jpg\" alt=\"Allow Me to Retort\" width=\"195\" height=\"293\" \/><\/a>Elie Mystal, who writes about legal matters for <em>The Nation<\/em>, has written an excellent book about what&#8217;s wrong with the U.S. Constitution: <a href=\"https:\/\/thenewpress.com\/books\/allow-me-retort\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><em>Al<\/em><em>low Me to Retort: A Black Guy&#8217;s Guide to the Constitution<\/em><\/a>. I <a href=\"https:\/\/washingtonlawyer.dcbar.org\/marchapril2022\/index.php#\/p\/44\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">reviewed this book<\/a> for <em>Washington Lawyer<\/em> &#8212; the District of Columbia Bar magazine &#8212; and I recommend that everyone who is concerned about the future of the United States and our democracy read it.<\/p>\n<p>I know a lot of people worry that if we try to fix the Constitution we&#8217;ll lose the good stuff in it, but the last few years have made it very clear that the flaws in it &#8212; both the ones built in by those who didn&#8217;t want true democracy and the ones that have been introduced by some very bad court decisions &#8212; are too damaging to ignore.<\/p>\n<p>But don&#8217;t take my word for it. Read Mr. Mystal.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Elie Mystal, who writes about legal matters for The Nation, has written an excellent book about what&#8217;s wrong with the U.S. Constitution: Allow Me to Retort: A Black Guy&#8217;s Guide to the Constitution. I reviewed this book for Washington Lawyer &#8212; the District of Columbia Bar magazine &#8212; and I recommend that everyone who is [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[335,10],"tags":[445,212,446],"class_list":["post-1878","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books-2","category-reviews","tag-allow-me-to-retort","tag-elie-mystal","tag-u-s-constitution"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/treehousewriters.com\/wp53\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1878","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/treehousewriters.com\/wp53\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/treehousewriters.com\/wp53\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/treehousewriters.com\/wp53\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/treehousewriters.com\/wp53\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1878"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/treehousewriters.com\/wp53\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1878\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1883,"href":"https:\/\/treehousewriters.com\/wp53\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1878\/revisions\/1883"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/treehousewriters.com\/wp53\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1878"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/treehousewriters.com\/wp53\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1878"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/treehousewriters.com\/wp53\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1878"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}