{"id":818,"date":"2007-10-31T10:09:17","date_gmt":"2007-10-31T14:09:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/2007\/10\/31\/democrats-to-gain-voters-in-new-jersey\/"},"modified":"2007-10-31T10:09:17","modified_gmt":"2007-10-31T14:09:17","slug":"democrats-to-gain-voters-in-new-jersey","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=818","title":{"rendered":"Democrats to Gain Voters In New Jersey"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>TRENTON, N.J. &#8211; In about two weeks, New Jersey voters will decide whether to eliminate insensitive phrasing in the state Constitution that characterizes people with disabilities as &#8220;idiots&#8221; and &#8220;insane.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The offensive language, adopted in the Constitution in 1844, is aimed at barring people with limited mental capacity from voting: &#8220;No idiot or insane person shall enjoy the right of suffrage.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>At least seven other states _ Arkansas, Iowa, Kentucky, Minnesota, Mississippi, New Mexico and Ohio _ have the words &#8220;idiot&#8221; or &#8220;insane&#8221; in their constitutions to define who can vote.<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.newsday.com\/news\/local\/wire\/newjersey\/ny-bc-nj--idiotphrase-ballo1021oct21,0,1548836.story\">Newsday\/AP Story<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>TRENTON, N.J. &#8211; In about two weeks, New Jersey voters will decide whether to eliminate insensitive &hellip; <a title=\"Democrats to Gain Voters In New Jersey\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=818\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Democrats to Gain Voters In New Jersey<\/span>Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":63,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-818","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/818","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/63"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=818"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/818\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=818"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=818"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=818"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}