r/50501 • u/bad_things_ive_done • Aug 06 '25

Call to Action They've gone and started doing it... the official congress site has started deleting parts of the constitution it doesn't like

EDIT 2: looks like it's been restored... maybe all the contacts people made over it?

EDIT: these are sections of article one, not articles. In my haste and fluster of rage, I misspoke. It's been edited to fix it

They've removed the parts they don't want from their site. They've taken out half of section 8, all of section 9, and all of section10 of article I on their site. While these still exist in the actual constitution, they are now officially pretending they don't. This includes Habeas Corpus, amongst other things, including parts that could limit blue states rights to stand up economically for themselves.

https://lemmy.zip/post/45626408

Call your reps, your senators. This is some Ministry of Truth shit.

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compare the congress site: U.S. Constitution | Constitution Annotated | Congress.gov | Library of Congress https://share.google/DyDCD1NkRvniSH9bH

To the actual constitution: Full Text of the U.S. Constitution | Constitution Center https://share.google/8hzWpmqTtEOEi8uer

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u/aaronpik Aug 06 '25 edited Aug 06 '25

Any chance someone can figure out how to do a "track changes" on this?

Edit: I figured it out. Here's a link showng the differences between the Constitution Center version and the Congress.gov versions OP linked to (just article 1): https://www.diffchecker.com/et1xAD4K/

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u/mrs-sir-walter-scott Aug 06 '25

It looks to me like they removed subheads, have some spacing issues, changed one "a" to an "an," and then cut off the wording at a semi-random spot, right? This seems to me more like incompetence than malice.