{"id":4770,"date":"2016-08-06T18:06:29","date_gmt":"2016-08-06T22:06:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lawcomic.net\/guide\/?p=4770"},"modified":"2023-08-13T16:07:22","modified_gmt":"2023-08-13T20:07:22","slug":"6-a-constitution-creates-a-government-and-defines-its-powers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lawcomic.net\/guide\/?p=4770","title":{"rendered":"6. A Constitution Creates a Government, and Defines Its Powers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-4771\" src=\"https:\/\/lawcomic.net\/guide\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/pt01pg03.png\" alt=\"The United States Constitution is what created the USA. It's also what created and organized the United States government, and it's what gives that government the authority to do its job. And it's also what restrains that authority, defining and limiting the government's powers.\" width=\"100%\" srcset=\"https:\/\/lawcomic.net\/guide\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/pt01pg03.png 2800w, https:\/\/lawcomic.net\/guide\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/pt01pg03-247x300.png 247w, https:\/\/lawcomic.net\/guide\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/pt01pg03-768x933.png 768w, https:\/\/lawcomic.net\/guide\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/pt01pg03-843x1024.png 843w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2800px) 100vw, 2800px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sitemap_exclude":false,"_sitemap_priority":"","_sitemap_frequency":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[35,45,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4770","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-constitutional-law","category-constitutions","category-uncategorized"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lawcomic.net\/guide\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4770","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lawcomic.net\/guide\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lawcomic.net\/guide\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lawcomic.net\/guide\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lawcomic.net\/guide\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4770"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lawcomic.net\/guide\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4770\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lawcomic.net\/guide\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4770"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lawcomic.net\/guide\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4770"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lawcomic.net\/guide\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4770"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}