Article the First (Entry 070.JE0705)
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🗓️ 17 September 2020
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In which the very first amendment to the Bill of Rights, outlining the future of U.S. government, gets forgotten on its path to ratification, and Ken insults Delaware. Certificate #21125.
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| 0:00.0 | We are Ken Jennings and John Roderick. |
| 0:07.0 | We are receiving this message. |
| 0:11.0 | We are Ken Jennings and John Roderick. We speak to you from our present, which we can only assume is your distant past, the turbulent time that was the early 21st century. |
| 0:21.0 | Fearing the great cataclysm that will surely befall our civilization, we began this monumental |
| 0:26.2 | reference of strange and obscure human knowledge. |
| 0:28.8 | These recordings represent our attempt to compile and preserve wonders and esoterica that would otherwise be lost. |
| 0:35.0 | So whether you're listening from an advanced civilization or have just reinvented the technology to decrypt our transmissions, |
| 0:41.0 | this is our legacy to you. This is our time capsule. This is the |
| 0:46.4 | omnibus. Oh, You have accessed entry 070.J. |
| 1:15.0 | J.075 |
| 1:18.0 | J.E.075 certificate1-125. |
| 1:24.0 | Article the First. |
| 1:26.0 | Hey, do you know about the USA? |
| 1:31.0 | Do you know about the government? Can you tell me about the U.S.A. Do you know about the government? Can you tell me about the Constitution? |
| 1:37.0 | Hey, learn about the U.S.A. |
| 1:41.0 | Are you, uh, can you describe to the futurelings the process, just very briefly, the process of amending |
| 1:49.9 | the US Constitution? |
| 1:51.1 | Oh, wow. There's two different ways to do this. Am I right? You either need, you can do it with state conventions which is almost never done and I feel like I've |
| 2:09.2 | heard the suggested as a way to get around the what the liberal courts or whatever those damn |
| 2:16.1 | liberal courts or is it a national convention can you do it with a national |
| 2:19.1 | convention normally it's done with a series of state votes, right? |
| 2:23.6 | What, two-thirds of the states? |
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