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Show HN: The US Bill of Rights written in current vernacular
- jMyles 11y agoPull Requests welcome! :-)
- benologist 11y agoShow HN is specifically reserved for usable stuff: Show HN is for something you've made that other people can play with. HN users can try it out, give you feedback, and ask questions in the thread. https://news.ycombinator.com/showhn.html https://news.ycombinator.com/showhn.html
- jMyles 11y agoAhh, roger - sorry about that. Although arguably a more readable bill of rights is usable in a larger way. :-)
- dragonwriter 11y agoI would note that the text does not preserve the sense of the original text in moving to the modern vernacular. In some cases, this seems to be because something approximating the effect of modern application of the Bill of Rights in combination with the 14th Amendment has been written into the text of the amendments from the Bill of Rights alone. (Particularly, it consistently recasts restrictions on Congress -- usually construed as restrictions on the federal government more generally -- as restrictions on "any government actor".) But there are other changes in sense, as well. Additionally, the use of feminine third-person singular pronouns in a generic sense is somewhat niche even now; I'd hardly say that is "current vernacular". Basically, I'd say its a pretty free riff inspired by the concepts in the Bill of Rights, rather than the actual Bill of Rights written in current vernacular.