{"id":1336,"date":"2011-07-04T15:47:53","date_gmt":"2011-07-04T21:47:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.jsharf.com\/view\/?p=1336"},"modified":"2011-07-04T20:15:37","modified_gmt":"2011-07-05T02:15:37","slug":"the-declaration-a-constitutional-document","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.jsharf.com\/view\/?p=1336","title":{"rendered":"The Declaration – A Constitutional Document"},"content":{"rendered":"

I’m writing this even as I’m grilling kabobs out on the barbie, so I probably haven’t adequately synthesized the couple of views presented here. \u00a0And like any long an complex story, I’m skipping a lot in a few hundred words. \u00a0But they’re worth thinking about, on this Independence Day, in a season of renewed interest and admiration for our founding.<\/p>\n

Pauline Maier, in her reluctant study of the Declaration,