{"id":5962,"date":"2023-07-05T03:20:00","date_gmt":"2023-07-05T03:20:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/?p=5962"},"modified":"2026-10-02T01:33:09","modified_gmt":"2026-10-02T01:33:09","slug":"design-flaw","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/?p=5962","title":{"rendered":"DESIGN FLAW?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Twenty years after the Declaration of Independence was signed, John Adams famously wrote, &#8220;<em style=\"background-color: #fbfbfb\">We have no government armed with power capable of contending with human passions unbridled by morality and religion . . . Our Constitution was made only for a moral and religious people. It is wholly inadequate to the government of any other.&#8221;<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><em style=\"background-color: #fbfbfb\"><br><\/em><span style=\"background-color: #fbfbfb\">I don&#8217;t want to sound pessimistic about the future of this country, but it seems to me this could turn out to be a major design flaw!<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Twenty years after the Declaration of Independence was signed, John Adams famously wrote, &#8220;We have no government armed with power capable of contending with human passions unbridled by morality and religion . . . Our Constitution was made only for a moral and religious people. It is wholly inadequate to the government of any other.&#8221; [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5962","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5962","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5962"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5962\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5963,"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5962\/revisions\/5963"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5962"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5962"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5962"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}