{"id":311,"date":"2003-02-06T11:50:47","date_gmt":"2003-02-06T15:50:47","guid":{"rendered":"\/?p=311"},"modified":"2007-10-07T11:56:08","modified_gmt":"2007-10-07T15:56:08","slug":"wormer-clauses","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.godofthemachine.com\/?p=311","title":{"rendered":"Wormer Clauses"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Turns out <a href=\"http:\/\/www.colbycosh.com\/index.html#mpcf\">Canada has a &#8220;notwithstanding clause,&#8221;<\/a> &#8220;a rarely-exercised legislative veto allowing some individual rights to be suspended, explicitly, where a statute conflicts with them.&#8221; (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.colbycosh.com\">Cosh<\/a>: it&#8217;s not just hockey and Canadian football any more.) Hey, great: just like <a href=\"http:\/\/web.jjay.cuny.edu\/~jobrien\/reference\/ob13.html\">Article 48 of the Weimar Constitution<\/a>! You remember, that was the one Hitler used to suspend the Constitution and declare himself dictator. I propose to christen these &#8220;Wormer clauses,&#8221; after Dean Wormer&#8217;s classic line in <span class=\"booktitle\">Animal House<\/span>: &#8220;There&#8217;s a little-known codicil in the Faber College Constitution granting the Dean unlimited powers in times of campus emergency.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Turns out Canada has a &#8220;notwithstanding clause,&#8221; &#8220;a rarely-exercised legislative veto allowing some individual rights to be suspended, explicitly, where a statute conflicts with them.&#8221; (Cosh: it&#8217;s not just hockey and Canadian football any more.) Hey, great: just like Article 48 of the Weimar Constitution! You remember, that was the one Hitler used to suspend <a href='https:\/\/www.godofthemachine.com\/?p=311' class='excerpt-more'>[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-311","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics","category-22-id","post-seq-1","post-parity-odd","meta-position-corners","fix"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.godofthemachine.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/311","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.godofthemachine.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.godofthemachine.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.godofthemachine.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.godofthemachine.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=311"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.godofthemachine.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/311\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.godofthemachine.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=311"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.godofthemachine.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=311"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.godofthemachine.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=311"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}