{"id":26309,"date":"2011-05-23T00:44:59","date_gmt":"2011-05-23T00:44:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/notable_and_quotable_22_may_2011\/"},"modified":"2011-05-23T00:44:59","modified_gmt":"2011-05-23T00:44:59","slug":"notable_and_quotable_22_may_2011","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=26309","title":{"rendered":"Notable and Quotable"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Succinctly capturing the central difference between the 7,200-word U.S. Constitution and the 76,000-word EU version, [Daniel] Hannan quips, \u201cwhere the one was based on empowering the people and controlling the state, the other was based on empowering the state and controlling the people.\u201d\u009d The U.S. charter famously begins, \u201cWe, the People\u201d\u00a6,\u201d\u009d while its EU counterpart starts, \u201cHis Majesty, the King of the Belgians\u201d\u00a6\u201d\u009d<\/p>\n<p>&#8211;Michael Rosen in a review of Daniel Hannan&#8217;s new book, The New Road to Serfdom: A Letter of Warning to America, <b>Commentary<\/b> (January 2011), page 46<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Succinctly capturing the central difference between the 7,200-word U.S. Constitution and the 76,000-word EU version, [Daniel] Hannan quips, \u201cwhere the one was based on empowering the people and controlling the state, the other was based on empowering the state and<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=26309\">Read more &#8250;<\/a><\/div>\n<p><!-- end of .read-more --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":794,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39,40,50,209,92,200,133,151],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-26309","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture-watch","category-economics-politics","category-international-news-commentary","category-americau-s-a","category-books","category-europe","category-history","category-politics-in-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26309","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/794"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=26309"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26309\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=26309"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=26309"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=26309"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}