{"id":1002002,"date":"2009-01-15T11:38:06","date_gmt":"2009-01-15T16:38:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.elharo.com\/blog\/?p=1002002"},"modified":"2009-01-15T11:38:06","modified_gmt":"2009-01-15T16:38:06","slug":"a-constitutional-thought-experiment-for-california","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.elharo.com\/blog\/politics\/2009\/01\/15\/a-constitutional-thought-experiment-for-california\/","title":{"rendered":"A Constitutional Thought Experiment for California"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Suppose the voters of this state passed a ballot resolution banning marriage between doctors and lawyers, and further invalidating existing marriages between doctors and lawyers. Would such a resolution be binding, or would it rightly be rejected by the courts? Are there any limits on the power of a ballot resolution beyond those set by the Federal Constitution? <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Suppose the voters of this state passed a ballot resolution banning marriage between doctors and lawyers, and further invalidating existing marriages between doctors and lawyers. Would such a resolution be binding, or would it rightly be rejected by the courts? Are there any limits on the power of a ballot resolution beyond those set by [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1002002","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.elharo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1002002","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.elharo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.elharo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.elharo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.elharo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1002002"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.elharo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1002002\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1002003,"href":"https:\/\/www.elharo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1002002\/revisions\/1002003"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.elharo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1002002"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.elharo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1002002"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.elharo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1002002"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}