{"id":275,"date":"2005-03-23T11:16:11","date_gmt":"2005-03-23T05:46:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ravikiran.com\/2005\/03\/23\/the-government-has-collapsed\/"},"modified":"2005-03-23T11:16:11","modified_gmt":"2005-03-23T05:46:11","slug":"the-government-has-collapsed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ravikiran.com\/blog\/classic\/200503\/the-government-has-collapsed\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;The government has collapsed&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/volokh.com\/posts\/1111527786.shtml\">Eugene Volokh<\/a> has an interesting observation:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8230;The goal of many emerging parliamentary democracies, I think, is for citizens to be able to say &#8220;The government has collapsed. Now, which movie do you want to go see tomorrow?,&#8221;&#8230;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I am not a fan of our constitution. I think the framers did an awfully lazy job of it. But I think that the silliest thing they did was to adopt the Parliamentary system instead of the Presidential system. What do you people think?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Eugene Volokh has an interesting observation: &#8230;The goal of many emerging parliamentary democracies, I think, is for citizens to be able to say &#8220;The government has collapsed. Now, which movie do you want to go see tomorrow?,&#8221;&#8230; I am not a fan of our constitution. I think the framers did an awfully lazy job of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[2],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ravikiran.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/275"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ravikiran.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ravikiran.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ravikiran.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ravikiran.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=275"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ravikiran.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/275\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ravikiran.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=275"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ravikiran.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=275"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ravikiran.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=275"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}