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This is bad news. :/

This is not the US constitution; it used to be, but Article I, part of section 8, & all of sections 9 & 10 have been removed

Compare with the original, from a few weeks back

Half of section 8, governing Congressional power over the military is removed.

Section 9 had, among other things:

  • Habeas Corpus the right to get a court hearing instead of arbitrary imprisonment
  • a ban on foreign emoluments for the US officials (eg: payments from foreign governments)

Section 10 reserved foreign policy for the federal government instead of the states.


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Neil E. Hodges
Neil E. Hodges
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I hope Trump voters are happy with what they (intentionally or not) voted for. :/
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Neil E. Hodges
Neil E. Hodges
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From here:

They’re intentionally misleading citizens about their rights in a way that removes their rights. People with limited education will rely on this information as unimpeachable. And websites like this is where AIs scrape and source their data.


They’re literally trying to rewrite history.

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Brian Fitzgerald
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I will quote myself in this comment from another posting.

This is troubling, but there are several federal government websites that display the constitution.
https://www.senate.gov/civics/resources/pdf/US_Constitution-Senate_Publication_103-21.pdf (believed to be complete)
https://uscode.house.gov/static/constitution.pdf (believed to be complete)

https://constitution.congress.gov/constitution/ (altered as described)
https://constitution.congress.gov/constitution/article-1/ (believed to be complete)

Based on this URL evidence, there is a default link for material in the https://constitution.congress.gov/constitution/ directory folder that point to an incomplete version of the constitution.

I’m hoping this is an unwitting website maintenance error rather than something nefarious.
On the other hand, the server hosting https://constitution.congress.gov/constitution/ may have been hacked.

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Neil E. Hodges
Neil E. Hodges
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Does it matter if it's available elsewhere?:

Neil E. Hodges

2025-08-06 14:53:12


From here:
They’re intentionally misleading citizens about their rights in a way that removes their rights. People with limited education will rely on this information as unimpeachable. And websites like this is where AIs scrape and source their data.


They’re literally trying to rewrite history.



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Neil E. Hodges
Neil E. Hodges
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Also relevant:

Neil E. Hodges

2025-08-06 14:46:03


This comment resonates with me. :/
this constant skepticism, where does it come from? Does Donald Trump have to come knock on your door personally and say "Hey I'm a fascist dictator!" for you to believe your eyes what the presidency is so obviously doing day in and day out? Did you not notice when they illegally swept up 200 men who had tattoos, claimed they were gang members, and sent them off to a foreign prison in direct violation of court orders? That was like "ah woke judges, tattoos are clearly incriminating..." When they tackled and handcuffed a US SENATOR for interrupting a department head that HE IS IN CHARGE FOR OVERSIGHT OF?


This is the part I'm trying to understand. What is the threshold for the skeptics?



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Brian Fitzgerald
Brian Fitzgerald
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@Neil E. Hodges, Although I too have a strong impression that "the sky is falling" I showed everyone something that is a fair indication that "in this particular instance" may only be a rain shower and is not part of "a giant asteroid".
Are you familiar with the intricacies of website management and how easy it is to mess something up unintentionally? The link that returns the incorrect version of the constitution is only to a folder, not to a document.
@Neil E. Hodges

Neil E. Hodges doesn't like this.

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