June 1 is day 160 of the Gregorian Calendar year, Prickle-Prickle, Confusion 13, 3186 YOLD (Discordian) And let us not forget 13.0.7.10.6 mlc (the Mayan Long Count)
I'm posting this straight out of Wikipedia because it is much funnier that way.
The United States Bill of Rights comprises the first ten amendments to the United States Constitution. Proposed following the often bitter 1787–88 debate over the ratification of the Constitution, and written to address the objections raised by Anti-Federalists, the Bill of Rights amendments add to the Constitution specific guarantees of personal freedoms and rights, clear limitations on the government's power in judicial and other proceedings, and explicit declarations that all powers not specifically granted to the U.S. Congress by the Constitution are reserved for the states or the people. The concepts codified in these amendments are built upon those found in earlier documents, especially the Virginia Declaration of Rights (1776), as well as the English Bill of Rights (1689) and the Magna Carta (1215). Due largely to the efforts of Representative James Madison, who studied the deficiencies of the Constitution pointed out by anti-federalists and then crafted a series of corrective proposals, Congress approved twelve articles of amendment on September 25, 1789, and submitted them to the states for ratification. Contrary to Madison's proposal that the proposed amendments be incorporated into the main body of the Constitution (at the relevant articles and sections of the document), they were proposed as supplemental additions (codicils) to it.[2] Articles Three through Twelve were ratified as additions to the Constitution on December 15, 1791, and became Amendments One through Ten of the Constitution. Article Two became part of the Constitution on May 5, 1992, as the Twenty-seventh Amendment. Article One is still pending before the states. (Wikipedia)
That is a wonderful example of how to use a few facts to present a false and misleading narrative. Yes, Madison proposed 12 Articles of Amendment on this date in 1789 (Which is, as I have noted before, the most important year in the formation of our actual government institutions). Yes, Congress later approved them and yes, 10 were ratified in 1791 and became the so-called "Bill of Rights". W00t!, BTW. They have been attacked, excepted and modified into puny shells of their original high sounding assertions. They do NOT guarantee personal freedoms and rights; they do NOT place clear limitations on the government's power in judicial and other proceedings; and the explicit declaration that all powers not specifically granted to the US Congress by the Constitution are reserved for the states or the people has been interpreted out of existence by expansive reading of the various grants of legislative and executive authority. They are but a hollow shell of what they were arguably intended to be. The sole real exception is the Third Amendment. (The Second, while greatly expanded with respect to firearms, is totally ignored and abrogated with respect to knives.) In addition, none of those amendments, as written, apply to the states. The Supreme Court has applied the due process clause of the 14th Amendment to "incorporate" part or all of some of them to the states. Specifically, the First, Second, Fourth and Eighth are fully incorporated into state law. Part of the fifth (all but grand jury indictment) and part of the sixth (all but Right to jury selected from residents of the state and district where the crime occurred) have also been incorporated into state law. The third, the seventh, the ninth and the tenth have not been incorporated.
On this day in history:
0793 – Vikings raided the abbey at Lindisfarne which is considered to be the beginning of Norse activity in the British Isles. 1663 – Portugal won independence from Spain at the Battle of Ameixial. 1789 – James Madison introduced twelve proposed amendments to the United States Constitution in Congress. 1887 – Herman Hollerith applied for US patent #395,781 for his punched card calculator. 1906 – Theodore Roosevelt signed the Antiquities Act into law. 1949 – Helen Keller, Dorothy Parker, Danny Kaye, Fredric March, John Garfield, Paul Muni and Edward G. Robinson were named in an FBI report as Communist arty members, as if that were anybody's business and as if the feebs ever had any credibility as to anything political (or anything else, for that matter.) 1949 – George Orwell's Nineteen Eighty-Four was published. (speaking of the feebs) 1953 – The United States Supreme Court ruled that restaurants in Washington, D.C., cannot refuse to serve black patrons. (District of Columbia v. John R. Thompson Co.) 1967 – The IDF shot up the NSA Spy Ship USS Liberty, killing 34 and wounding 171. 1972 – Nine year old Phan Th? Kim Phúc was burned by napalm and photographed by Nick Ut moments later running down a road, capturing the spirit of the US war on Viet Nam. 1982 – An Argentine air attack on two British landing ships killed fifty-six 1984 – Homosexuality was declared legal in New South Wales. 1987 – New Zealand established national nuclear-free zone under the New Zealand Nuclear Free Zone, Disarmament, and Arms Control Act 1987. 1992 – The first World Oceans Day was celebrated to little or no avail.
Born this day in:
I am most disturbed and disappointed at present to find you taking the position that intellectual pursuits must be "watered down" to make them suitable for women, and that a lower standard must be adopted at a woman's college than in a man's. I do not expect any of the other members of the faculty to feel this way about it; they, like (nearly) all men that I have known, doubtless take an attitude of toleration, half amused and half kindly, on the whole question; for even where men are willing to help in women's education, it is with an inward reserve of condescension. — Charlotte Scott, Scott Papers
1625 – Giovanni Domenico Cassini, mathematician and astronomer 1671 – Tomaso Albinoni, violinist and composer 1810 – Robert Schumann, composer and critic 1851 – Jacques-Arsène d'Arsonval, physician and physicist 1858 – Charlotte Scott, mathematician, the real 8th Wrangler of the 1880 Cambridge Tripos exam 1860 – Alicia Boole Stott, mathematician and theorist, coined the term "polytope" 1867 – Frank Lloyd Wright, architect 1868 – Robert Robinson Taylor, architect 1910 – John W. Campbell, journalist and author 1916 – Francis Crick, biologist, biophysicist, and neuroscientist 1936 – Kenneth G. Wilson, physicist and academic 1940 – Nancy Sinatra, singer and actress 1942 – Doug Mountjoy, snooker player 1944 – Boz Scaggs, singer, songwriter, and guitarist 1945 – Steven Fromholz, singer, songwriter, producer, and poet 1947 – Annie Haslam, singer, songwriter, and painter 1951 – Tony Rice, guitarist and songwriter 1951 – Bonnie Tyler, singer and songwriter 1955 – Tim Berners-Lee, computer scientist, inventor of the World Wide Web 1960 – Mick Hucknall, singer, songwriter 1960 – Terje Gewelt, bassist 1962 – Nick Rhodes, keyboard player and producer 1966 – Doris Pearson, singer, songwriter, and choreographer 1975 – Emm Gryner, singer, songwriter 1981 – Alex Band, singer, songwriter, guitarist, and producer
Died this day in:
I do not believe in the creed professed by the Jewish church, by the Roman church, by the Greek church, by the Turkish church, by the Protestant church, nor by any church that I know of. My own mind is my own church. All national institutions of churches, whether Jewish, Christian or Turkish, appear to me no other than human inventions, set up to terrify and enslave mankind, and monopolize power and profit. - Thomas Paine
0632 – Muhammad, 1768 – Johann Joachim Winckelmann, archaeologist and scholar 1809 – Thomas Paine, theorist and author 1874 – Cochise aka Shi-ka-She or A-da-tli-chi, Chiricahua Apache chief 1876 – George Sand, author and playwright 1889 – Gerard Manley Hopkins,poet 1971 – J.I. Rodale, author and playwright Playwright? 1998 – Maria Reiche, mathematician and archaeologist
Holidays, Holy Days, Festivals, Feast Days, Days of Recognition, and such: World Brain Tumor Day World Oceans Day Thomas Paine Day Jelly-Filled Doughnut Day
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