{"id":88,"date":"2006-06-26T09:24:25","date_gmt":"2006-06-26T08:24:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/west-penwith.org.uk\/blog\/archives\/88"},"modified":"2006-06-26T09:26:20","modified_gmt":"2006-06-26T08:26:20","slug":"bill-of-rights","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/west-penwith.org.uk\/blog\/archives\/88","title":{"rendered":"Bill of Rights"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In case the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.conservatives.com\/\">Conservative Party<\/a> in particular and the press in general have forgotten, we already have a <a title=\"English bill of rights 1689 AD\" href=\"http:\/\/www.webmesh.co.uk\/englishbillofrights1689.htm\">Bill of Rights<\/a>. It was passed in 1689 and embodies the Declaration of Rights, 1688. Admittedly is was only England (and Wales) as it was before the <a title=\"The History of Scotland - Act of Union\" href=\"http:\/\/www.historic-uk.com\/HistoryUK\/Scotland-History\/ActofUnion.htm\">Act of Union<\/a> but a quick amendment would sort that out.<\/p>\n<p>It is also worth mentioning that the US <a title=\"The Bill of Rights (US)\" href=\"http:\/\/usinfo.state.gov\/usa\/infousa\/facts\/funddocs\/billeng.htm\">Bill of Rights<\/a> was not drafted as a comprehensive statement of the rights of citizens, but is just a nickname for the first 10 amendments to the constitution; things they forgot the first time around.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In case the Conservative Party in particular and the press in general have forgotten, we already have a Bill of Rights. It was passed in 1689 and embodies the Declaration of Rights, 1688. Admittedly is was only England (and Wales) as it was before the Act of Union but a quick amendment would sort that [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":239,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-88","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-misc"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/west-penwith.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/west-penwith.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/west-penwith.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/west-penwith.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/239"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/west-penwith.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=88"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/west-penwith.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/west-penwith.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=88"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/west-penwith.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=88"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/west-penwith.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=88"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}