{"id":37930,"date":"2022-12-16T13:14:27","date_gmt":"2022-12-16T19:14:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/?p=37930"},"modified":"2022-12-16T13:14:27","modified_gmt":"2022-12-16T19:14:27","slug":"word-of-the-day-845","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/2022\/12\/16\/word-of-the-day-845\/","title":{"rendered":"Word Of The Day"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Plebiscite<\/em>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>A plebiscite is a vote by the whole people and is often used synonymously with a referendum. In the most recent literature a plebiscite has been defined as \u201can instrument, which allow[s] a government to appeal to people to express themselves with a yes or a no\u201d[i].\u2019 [sic] The two terms do not always overlap in the legal, political and diplomatic literature as will be shown below.<em> [<a href=\"https:\/\/pesd.princeton.edu\/node\/571\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>Encyclopedia Princetoniensis<\/strong><\/a>]<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Noted in &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.msnbc.com\/rachel-maddow-show\/maddowblog\/thursdays-mini-report-121522-rcna62006\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><em>Thursday\u2019s Mini-Report, 12.15.22<\/em><\/a>,&#8221; Steve Benen, <em><strong>Maddowblog<\/strong><\/em>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>*\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.nbcnews.com\/news\/latino\/puerto-rico-status-act-house-vote-territory-plebiscite-rcna61871\">Puerto Rico\u2019s<\/a>\u00a0future: \u201cThe House voted Thursday in favor of the Puerto Rico Status Act, which seeks to resolve the U.S. territory\u2019s status and its relationship to the United States through a binding plebiscite. In a 232-191 vote, the bill was passed by 216 Democrats and 16 Republicans. All votes against the bill came from Republicans.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>As the Republicans were supporting statehood for the Puerto Ricans about a decade ago, it&#8217;s a puzzling vote. And while the Democrats may not find the Puerto Ricans to be as liberal as they might like, the current flavor of Republicans may be equally disappointed.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Plebiscite: A plebiscite is a vote by the whole people and is often used synonymously with a referendum. In the most recent literature a plebiscite has been defined as \u201can instrument, which allow[s] a government to appeal to people to express themselves with a yes or a no\u201d[i].\u2019 [sic] The \u2026 <a class=\"continue-reading-link\" href=\"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/2022\/12\/16\/word-of-the-day-845\/\"> Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr; <\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-37930","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37930","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=37930"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37930\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":37931,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37930\/revisions\/37931"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=37930"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=37930"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=37930"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}