Article 1, Section 9 and 10 have been removed from the official government website on the US Constitution. This better be some kind of joke.
Among numerous points:
•Section 9 forbids suspending The Privilege of the Writ of Habeas Corpus
•Section 10 forbids ex post facto laws
Removing these two would absolutely mean full blown dictatorship. Genuinely hoping this is some sort of prank or joke, but you never know with this fascist regime.
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Nope, they did. Totes VERY ALARMING:
https://mas.to/@tezoatlipoca/114982403631639789
EDIT (8/6 2:20 pm EST) - fixed now. But other sources use the Wayback machine to show its been that way since ~July 17
@HalfHeartedFanatic Holy fucking shit, they did. I happened to take a snap of Library of Congress's Annotated Constitution in January (for some other reason). https://static.awadwatt.com/U.S.%20Constitution%20%EF%BD%9C%20Constitution%20Annotated%20%EF%BD%9C%20Congress.gov%20%EF%BD%9C%20Library%20of%20Congress%20(1_21_2025%203%EF%BC%9A23%EF%BC%9A07%20PM).html and here it is today: https://static.awadwatt.com/U.S.%20Constitution%20%EF%BD%9C%20Constitution%20Annotated%20%EF%BD%9C%20Congress.gov%20%EF%BD%9C%20Library%20of%20Congress%20(8_6_2025%2010%EF%BC%9A48%EF%BC%9A58%20AM).html here is the DIFF: https://static.awadwatt.com/Holy%20fucking%20shit%20-%20Congress%20just%20REDACTED%20the%20Constitution.html EDIT (8/6 2:20 pm EST) - fixed now. But other sources use the Wayback machine to show its been that way since ~July 17
Note: The following text is a transcription of the Constitution as it was inscribed by Jacob Shallus on parchment (the document on display in the Rotunda at the National Archives Museum). The spelling and punctuation reflect the original.
@QasimRashid per archive.org, sections 9 and 10 were present on July 17[1] but removed before today
1: https://web.archive.org/web/20250717091439/https://constitution.congress.gov/constitution/
@QasimRashid We can push it out to July 21 by looking at the article 1 details page[1], which has also had sections 9 and 10 removed
1: https://web.archive.org/web/20250721170235/https://constitution.congress.gov/browse/article-1/
Koch Network always wanted to rewrite the Constitution.
https://billmoyers.com/story/koch-convention-rewrite-constitution-runs-roadblocks/
https://www.esquire.com/news-politics/politics/a14841457/convention-of-states-campaign-secession/
https://progressive.org/magazine/far-right-plan-for-a-new-confederacy-maclean-pearson-20231211/
https://www.local3ibew.org/news/koch-brothers-push-us-constitutional-convention
https://www.newsweek.com/new-constitutional-convention-would-death-progress-opinion-1818107
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=Cp9V1DGRKOE
The fossil fuel industry paid $445 million to get a fascist dictatorship.
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/jan/23/big-oil-445m-trump-congress
@QasimRashid This gives us a window into their mentality. But, it's not as if this website contains the definitive version of the Constitution. Countless schools, homes, and law offices have copies.
Additionally, it's not in their power to amend or edit the Constitution.
@QasimRashid Just to note, the main site has the following: "Thank you for your inquiry and your interest in the Library of Congress. Due to a coding error, some sections of Article 1 are missing on the Constitution Annotated website. We are aware of the issue and working to correct it. We expect this to be resolved soon. If you wish, we can send you an email notification when the issue is resolved."
Very weird "coding error" if true!
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I mean, taking off a website does not take it out of the actual constitution does it.
Not a great sign, but does it change anything?
This will be another way to test the waters, like when trump tweets outrageous things, then the MAGA cult laughs online at how he's 'trolling the dems'. Then trump backs off. But later, when the MAGA cult reception is more favourable, he will do what he'd tweeted. It would be interesting to see how the MAGA cult reacts to this. Then we'll know if this new horror is coming shortly or will be put on hold.
Does the fact that the page is back up at https://constitution.congress.gov/browse/article-1/section-9/clause-8/ mean that they stopped being fascist?
The whole point of Hanlon's Razor is that you're supposed to apply it, without exceptions, to prevent something like this, which is inconsequential even if it _were_ malicious, from making you paranoid.
We can agree to disagree, but personally, I'll leave the "there are no coincidences" mentality to QAnon.
@eribosot @QasimRashid There are exceptionally few technical reasons for specific subsections of a website to disappear.
To believe *those specific* sections which the fascists are actively trying to subvert are struck by such a technical glitch is choosing to believe in an unlikely coincidence.
Giving them the benefit of the doubt does nobody any good.
@eribosot @QasimRashid In practical terms, this administration doesn't have any credibility. Their mouthpieces can't be trusted.
I would need to see the technical details of how their code managed to pick these pages to suppress.
According to the web site, this is a "coding error".
More specifically:
Along the top of the site is a text (hence accessible) tiny banner notice saying:
The Constitution Annotated website is currently experiencing data issues. We are working to resolve this issue and regret the inconvenience.
Then, within the main banner image below that, there is an inexplicably carousel'd notice that is inlaid as an image (hence not accessible) into the right side of the historical painting that is the usual banner image. The notice says -- actually, says 5 times, repeating itself verbatim each time, because as I said the whole thing is inexplicably in a carousel even though both it and its background painting are exactly the same each time around -- the following:
Thank you for your inquiry and your interest in the Library of Congress. Due to a coding error, some sections of Article 1 are missing on the Constitution Annotated website. We are aware of the issue and are working to correct it. We expect this to be resolved soon. If you wish, we can send you an email notification when the issue is resolved.
I just typed that out by hand, because it couldn't be copied-and-pasted, because, like I said, that text is only in an image :-).
Note there is no explanation of how to sign up for this "email notification when the issue is resolved". Underneath the image-text is a link, where the link text is just the characters ". >" and the link itself is just back to the home page that one is already on.
As a coder, I'm very curious what the heck kind of coding error this could be -- one would normally expect either the whole copy of the Constitution to be broken or not -- but I don't know anything about how they've set up this web site. Probably there's some innocent explanation and if we talked to one of their programmers it would all make sense. They didn't handle the notice very well, though :-(.
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@kfogel @QasimRashid thats not how content serving works, especially static content like THE CONSTITUTION OF THE UNITED STATES.
check out debug mode - this isnt dynamic content. this was excluded. a person went in and physically removed part of the constitution of the united states from the website.
@ghostrunner (just CC'ing you here, as this post might be noise to others):
FWIW, I wanted to see what else had disappeared. I did this command:
dwdiff -3 safe-local-copy-of-constitution.txt congress-online-constitution.txt
(having copied-and-pasted directly from the web site into the latter file). The output shows that the only deleted stuff is in Section 1 -- here's the relevant passage from the output:
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To provide and maintain a navy;
To make rules for the government and regulation of the land and
naval forces;
To provide for calling forth the militia to execute the laws of
the union, suppress insurrections and repel invasions;
To provide for organizing, arming, and disciplining, the militia,
and for governing such part of them as may be employed in the
service of the United States, reserving to the States
respectively, the appointment of the officers, and the authority
of training the militia according to the discipline prescribed by
Congress;
To exercise exclusive legislation in all cases whatsoever, over
such district (not exceeding ten miles square) as may, by cession
of particular States, and the acceptance of Congress, become the
seat of the government of the United States, and to exercise like
authority over all places purchased by the consent of the
legislature of the states in which the same shall be, for the
erection of forts, magazines, arsenals, dockyards, and other
needful buildings; -And
To make all laws which shall be necessary and proper for carrying
into execution the foregoing powers, and all other powers vested
by the Constitution in the government of the United States, or in
any department or officer thereof.
Section 9. The migration or importation of such persons as any of
the states now existing shall think proper to admit, shall not be
prohibited by the Congress prior to the year one thousand eight
hundred and eight, but a tax or duty may be imposed on such
importation, not exceeding ten dollars for each person.
The privilege of the writ of habeas corpus shall not be suspended,
unless when in cases of rebellion or invasion the public safety
may require it.
No bill of attainder or ex post facto law shall be passed.
No capitation, or other direct, tax shall be laid, unless in
proportion to the census or enumeration herein before directed to
be taken.
No tax or duty shall be laid on articles exported from any state.
No preference shall be given by any regulation of commerce or
revenue to the ports of one state over those of another: nor shall
vessels bound to, or from, one state, be obliged to enter, clear,
or pay duties in another.
No money shall be drawn from the treasury, but in consequence of
appropriations made by law; and a regular statement and account of
the receipts and expenditures of all public money shall be
published from time to time.
No title of nobility shall be granted by the United States: And
no person holding any office of profit or trust under them, shall,
without the consent of the Congress, accept of any present,
emolument, office, or title, of any kind whatever, from any king,
prince, or foreign state.
Section 10. No state shall enter into any treaty, alliance, or
confederation; grant letters of marque and reprisal; coin money;
emit bills of credit; make any thing but gold and silver coin a
tender in payment of debts; pass any bill of attainder, ex post
facto law, or law impairing the obligation of contracts, or grant
any title of nobility.
No state shall, without the consent of the Congress, lay any
imposts or duties on imports or exports, except what may be
absolutely necessary for executing its inspection laws; and the
net produce of all duties and imposts, laid by any state on
imports or exports, shall be for the use of the Treasury of the
United States; all such laws shall be subject to the revision and
control of the Congress.
No state shall, without the consent of Congress, lay any duty of
tonnage, keep troops, or ships of war in time of peace, enter into
any agreement or compact with another state, or with a foreign power,
or engage in war, unless actually invaded, or in such imminent danger
as will not admit of delay.-] {+Years;+}
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@kfogel @QasimRashid My guess is that each article is stored separately (whether in a database or in text files) so it can be linked to the (also missing) annotations, and the full-text page is assembled from those parts. The missing parts of Article 1 are a continuous passage at the end, like it got truncated. It's the longest of the articles, and even what's left is still longer than the others. So it's entirely possible someone changed a size limit or something, and it just cut off everything that didn't fit. The fact that it stopped between paragraphs and not in the middle of the word is suspicious, but not unreasonably so.
Now, whether the technical error was introduced through malice or incompetence? Hard to say, since this administration has promoted both.
And there's certainly been a history here of testing the waters with something obviously malicious, making an insincere "oops!" or "It's just a joke," and then coming back to it when circumstances make it easier to follow through.
@QasimRashid I just checked. Other government web sites are showing Article 1, Section 9 (the only one I looked for) and the one Qasim cited now has a message saying that "The Constitution Annotated website is currently experiencing data issues. We are working to resolve this issue and regret any inconvenience."
Check again later - at this point it is consistent with a broken web site that someone is trying to fix.
These MAGA people are disgustingly SICK!
It is NOT a joke. Just like #AlcatrazAuschwitz, it!s NOT a joke!
To people in the States: This is a serious #ALERT 🚨🚨🚨🚨🚨
#NaziUSA #FightBack #FightMAGANow
#GeneralStrike #Protest, sit-ins at US politicians' offices, whatever ppl need to do
@QasimRashid This is why I have a copy on my phone.
Deleting Reality doesn't work.
It's not a joke, it's part of The Process.
Note: The following text is a transcription of the Constitution as it was inscribed by Jacob Shallus on parchment (the document on display in the Rotunda at the National Archives Museum). The spelling and punctuation reflect the original.
@QasimRashid I'm sorry, why on Earth would you even bring up the "prank" thing? Does it look in any way whatsoever like these people are joking, or even have anything resembling a sense of humor?
Isn't it about time everybody realized that they are exactly what they look, act & talk like, i.e. real, bona-fide, honest to God, Hitler- & Mussolini-loving fascists?
Leave the caveats & possible alternative explanations out until their behavior warrants bringing them back in.
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