{"id":44733,"date":"2019-09-17T10:04:44","date_gmt":"2019-09-17T14:04:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/?p=44733"},"modified":"2019-09-17T10:06:18","modified_gmt":"2019-09-17T14:06:18","slug":"did-you-know-6","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/2019\/09\/did-you-know-6\/","title":{"rendered":"Did you Know?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/did-you-know-520x400.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-44170\" width=\"270\" height=\"208\" srcset=\"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/did-you-know-520x400.jpg 520w, https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/did-you-know-520x400-300x231.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 270px) 100vw, 270px\" \/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>by Paul Waldmiller<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Did you know that on September 17, 1787, the State delegates\nin Philadelphia ratified the U.S. Constitution at the Constitutional\nConvention?&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&nbsp;Were you also aware that since that date, American\u2019s\nresolved important social issues of their time by adding and subtracting\nConstitutional Amendments? No matter how divisive the social issue of their\ntime, Americans came together to unite and follow the precept of our\nConstitutional Republic.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&nbsp;I mention these important facts in this week\u2019s column\nas we are just over one year away from the next General Election where a total\nof 468 seats in Congress are up for grabs and our current Government\nrepresentatives (of both major political parties) often ignore the relevance of\nour Constitution.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>America (with it\u2019s deep divide over many social issues\nincluding, but not limited to, abortion, guns, crime\/criminal justice and\nimmigration) will undoubtedly take center stage, and the U.S. Constitution\u2019s\nrelevance in regards to these issues, will seemingly-continue to be ignored no\nmatter whom is elected. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Indeed, Americans are deeply divided and nothing shows this\nmore than through the issues raised by candidates seeking office. Increasingly,\ncurrent Democratic Party politicians are leaning strongly towards socialist\nideologies, while President Donald J. Trump tends to hold to his own and unique\npolitical beliefs that resemble a&nbsp;montage&nbsp;of both the Democrat and\nRepublican Party positions.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&nbsp;Whatever political party \u201cwins\u201d the general election\nin 2020, I suspect that the number of Americans including Floridians who trust\nthe Federal Government (just 18% by some polls) will not increase. Americans\nonly continue to grow apathetic of Government and the courts&#8217; involvement in\npurposely abusing the Constitution. America is at a political crossroads as\nwell as a Constitutional crisis.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Before the upcoming General Election, Americans should\nreflect upon the fact that less than one-fifth of \u201cWe The People\u201d no longer\ntrust our Government representatives and the courts. Unless Americans return to\ntheir responsibility of holding our Government Representatives accountable to\nthe U.S. Constitution, we can only expect more of our Natural Rights to become lost\nforever.&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>by Paul Waldmiller Did you know that on September 17, 1787, the State delegates in Philadelphia ratified the U.S. Constitution at the Constitutional Convention?&nbsp; &nbsp;Were you also aware that since&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":44170,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44733"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=44733"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44733\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/44170"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=44733"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=44733"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=44733"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}