{"id":56489,"date":"2020-09-17T22:59:37","date_gmt":"2020-09-18T02:59:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.nmc.edu\/?p=56489"},"modified":"2020-09-18T08:39:58","modified_gmt":"2020-09-18T12:39:58","slug":"patchwork-a-constitution-day-appreciation-of-legislative-mending","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.nmc.edu\/?p=56489","title":{"rendered":"Patch\u2739Work: A Constitution Day Appreciation of Legislative Mending"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-13667\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.nmc.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/US-CONSTITUTION_tcm6-78985.jpg\" alt=\"Constitution photo\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" \/>To mark Constitution Day (September 17, 2020), NMC Library has collected submissions of personal &#8220;appreciations&#8221; of real and imagined Constitutional amendments, or patches, that have been (or might be) stitched over the years to span holes in the founding document of our national government.<\/p>\n<p>The word amendment finds its roots in the Latin emendare (e &#8220;out of&#8221;; menda &#8220;a fault&#8221;) and retains the spirit and connotations of the shortened Middle English variant, &#8220;mend&#8221; \u2014 to repair, restore or fix; to patch a hole in.<\/p>\n<p>You can view the first round of appreciations in <a href=\"https:\/\/ensemble.nmc.edu\/PatchWork\">the library&#8217;s Patch<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u2739<\/span>Work video gallery<\/a>. These appreciations represent the personal views and reflections of individual members of our college community, and should not be construed as institutional positions.<\/p>\n<p>We&#8217;d love to add more perspectives over time, so <a href=\"https:\/\/docs.google.com\/document\/d\/1adEkDPjMdEZU7Jtl7Wy9WywBJRd__4glTT50KOpCLrU\">we welcome more submissions<\/a> even though the deadline for this Constitution Day has passed.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>To mark Constitution Day (September 17, 2020), NMC Library has collected submissions of personal &#8220;appreciations&#8221; of real and imagined Constitutional amendments, or patches, that have been (or might be) stitched over the years to span holes in the founding document of our national government. 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