Good morning, Whitewater.
Tuesday in town will be cloudy with a high of forty-two. Sunrise is 7:18 and sunset 4:21, for 9h 02m 51s. The moon’s a waxing crescent with 17.9% of its visible disk illuminated.
Whitewater’s Common Council meets tonight at 6:30 PM.
On this day in 1791, ten amendments to the Constitution become law:
The Bill of Rights, twelve articles of amendment to the to the United States Constitution proposed in 1789, ten of which, Articles three through twelve, became part of the United States Constitution in 1791.
On June 8, 1789 Representative James Madison introduced a series of thirty-nine amendments to the constitution in the House of Representatives. Among his recommendations Madison proposed opening up the Constitution and inserting specific rights limiting the power of Congress in Article One, Section 9. Seven of these limitations would become part of the ten ratified Bill of Rights amendments. Ultimately, on September 25, 1789, Congress approved twelve articles of amendment to the Constitution and submitted them to the states for ratification. Contrary to Madison’s original proposal that the articles be incorporated into the main body of the Constitution, they were proposed as supplemental additions (codicils) to it. Articles Three–Twelve were ratified as additions to the Constitution December 15, 1791, and became Amendments One–Ten of the Constitution. Article Two became part of the Constitution May 7, 1992 as the Twenty-seventh Amendment.[1] Article One is technically still pending before the states.
Originally the Bill of Rights applied only to the federal government. The door for their application upon state governments was opened in the 1860s, following ratification of the Fourteenth Amendment. Since the early 20th century both federal and state courts have used the Fourteenth Amendment to apply portions of the Bill of Rights to state and local governments. The process is known as incorporation.[2]
On 12.15.1847, Wisconsin convenes her second constitutional convention:
On this date the first draft of the Wisconsin Constitution was rejected in 1846. As a result, Wisconsin representatives met again to draft a new constitution in 1847. New delegates were invited, and only five delegates attended both conventions. The second convention used the failed 1846 constitution as a springboard for their own, but left out controversial issues such as banking and property rights for women that the first constitution attempted to address. The second constitution included a proposal to let the people of Wisconsin vote on a referendum designed to approve black suffrage. [Source: Attainment of Statehood by Milo M. Quaife]
Here’s the Tuesday game from this week’s Trimming the Tree Puzzability series:
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This Week’s Game — December 14-18
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Trimming the Tree
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We’re adding the decorations to our Christmas tree this week. Each day, we started with a word or phrase, added the eight letters in ORNAMENT, and rearranged the remaining letters to get a new phrase. Both pieces are described in each day’s clue, with the shorter one first.
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Example:
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Feral; aged personification of the coldest season
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Answer:
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Wild; Old Man Winter
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What to Submit:
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Submit both pieces, with the shorter one first (as “Wild; Old Man Winter” in the example), for your answer.
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Tuesday, December 15
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