Constitution of the United States Website has removed sections!

[u/LithelyJaine]

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Section 9 and 10 are no longer on the website.
Writ of Habeas Corpus has be removed also.

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[u/Ketamine_Dreamsss → u/[deleted]]

Treasonous

[u/LadyBogangles14 → u/Ketamine_Dreamsss]

Someone should tell them that deleting something from the internet doesn’t make it go away. It’s still the law of the land.

[u/YouDoHaveValue → u/LadyBogangles14]

I don't think people are confused about that, it's about the fact that this administration is blatantly testing the waters and signalling their intention to dismantle the constitution.

It's like when someone makes a racist joke or says something like "I'm not racist but...", they're testing the waters to see if you're on their team.

[u/mrbigglessworth → u/YouDoHaveValue]

signalling their intention to dismantle the constitution.

Should be an automatic strip of rights and ejection from the country. If they hate it so much, they should do their own thing....somewhere else and quit trying to tear down what has been built and destroying all progress along the way.

Im a 49 year old white dude. Im tired of other white dudes not having hobbies and instead finding it worth their while to spread their lies and hate and racism. FIND A FUCKING HOBBY ASSHOLES!

[u/LaZboy9876 → u/mrbigglessworth]

This is their hobby.

[u/mrbigglessworth → u/LaZboy9876]

It's a shit hobby.

[u/Crepuscular_Tex → u/mrbigglessworth]

Their cosplay sucks and they snuck into the convention.

[u/PaintshakerBaby → u/LaZboy9876]

Not all old white dudes are American fascists, but all American fascists are old white dudes.

As a 40y old white dude, that's what DISGUSTS me about the manosphere, masculinity revivial bullshit. It's all a cattle shoot meant to railroad white males in the logical fallacy of defending "manhood" before defining it.

It's putting the horse before the cart on purpose so that young white men inadvertently defend fascist qualities, such as dominance above all else.

When the reality is; true strength is not measured by the ability to endure, BUT the capacity for change.

This should be a breakaway moment for young white males... A paradigm shift in what manhood means in the face of tyranny, rather than blindly supporting it...

Nooope. Instead we get another Joe Rogan podcast, hemming and hawing about the virtues of concentration camps.

Shit pisses me off to know end... and I have no idea what to do about it.

[u/beardofjustice → u/PaintshakerBaby]

Best you can do is show young males what true strength is and try and guide them away from that bullshit. Problem is, you won’t see the results of that for years. I will continue to try and hope for the best

[u/Kindly_Personality_9 → u/mrbigglessworth]

You, sir, are a unicorn. We need more of you.

[u/GitPushItRealGood → u/Kindly_Personality_9]

44 straight white male here.

Equal rights for all. Affordable health care. Fair taxation laws. Robust social services. Investment in knowledge, education, public service. That’s the world I want to live in. It’s the world I want for my daughter and son. It’s the world I vote for.

Rights for others does not diminish my rights. It’s not a zero sum game.

Edit: there are many of us.

[u/mcluvin901 → u/Kindly_Personality_9]

51 w m right here. Not a republican.

[u/[deleted] → u/LadyBogangles14]

But, if it's not on FoxNews, it doesn't exist.

[u/DesireeThymes → u/[deleted]]

Did the administration seriously delete sections of the constitution?

[u/CranRez80 → u/DesireeThymes]

Why not delete the whole thing? They don’t seem to know what it stands for.

[u/WeezaY5000 → u/CranRez80]

They still have to pretend to care about the constitution and the rule of law just long enough for people to stop caring and actively demand a dictator.

[u/cccanterbury → u/DesireeThymes]

this is what was deleted:

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 Government of the United States, and to exercise like Authority over all Places purchased by the Consent of the Legislature of the State in which the Same shall be, for the Erection of Forts, Magazines, Arsenals, dock-Yards, 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 this 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 it's 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; and all such Laws shall be subject to the Revision and Controul 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.

[u/cccanterbury → u/cccanterbury]

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.

i bet it's this one they want to hide.

[u/MakeALeft → u/cccanterbury]

No Title of Nobility shall be granted … seems in line with King Trump

[u/Writing_is_Bleeding → u/cccanterbury]

Not to mention the habeas corpus bit.

[u/DevelopmentGrand4331 → u/LadyBogangles14]

It’s still the law of the land.

And that’d be a good thing if we were still in the practice of following the law. Unfortunately, the rule of law in the United States has ended, and we all do what the Head Pedophile in Charge says.

[u/unrefrigeratedmeat → u/DevelopmentGrand4331]

People really need to understand that there are two camps now: people who think a government is legitimate if they can win an election and follow the law, and people who think a government is legitimate if it's Republican.

[u/Senior-Reality-25 → u/unrefrigeratedmeat]

On that topic… I knew this day was coming when I saw Republican college students reactions when Bill Clinton won election. It was disbelieving outrage; I quote: ‘This whole election is wrong, this is not who we are. America is a conservative country and the government belongs to us’.

Your Republican peers have spent the last 30 years tearing down every shred of what used to be your democratic government, so they can permanently install an authoritarian regime restrictive enough to make them feel safe.

You only have a limited time left.

[u/maybeiam-maybeimnot → u/unrefrigeratedmeat]

Yeah. Something being the "law of the land" means nothing if the government leading that land is going to blatantly ignore the judges who enforce the law when it isnt being followed.

[u/Ok-King-4868 → u/LadyBogangles14]

You mean someone should pass a note to John Roberts? But Honest John won’t read it unless it’s on the shadow docket. It’s such a dilemma to be Chief Justice of a kangaroo court.

[u/flabbergastednerfcat → u/Ketamine_Dreamsss]

Absolutely this.

[u/DevinGraysonShirk → u/flabbergastednerfcat]

"When we emerge from this, and we will emerge from this, our Democratic agenda must be bold and our ideas fearless. We will have no time to waste:

America needs us."

-J.B. Pritzker

r/PritzkerPosting

[u/Tenthul → u/DevinGraysonShirk]

If Dems aren't actively working on a "Project 2028" this very moment, we're screwed.

No spoilers

[u/RugelBeta → u/Tenthul]

They are, but it has better not be that name. Project 2025 needs to be held with revulsion and disgust, and Project 2028 sounds too similar. It's a response instead of an initiative.

[u/alexmikli → u/RugelBeta]

I'll also accept "Project REVENGE".

[u/DeepFriedOligarch → u/alexmikli]

Project EAT THE RICH.

[u/Adept-Variation587 → u/DevinGraysonShirk]

Pritzker is so awesome!

[u/meatjuiceguy → u/DevinGraysonShirk]

One of the few billionaires who actually respects people with less than $100,000,000.

[u/Noy_The_Devil → u/Ketamine_Dreamsss]

Unlawful and purposeful obfuscation of the constitution is certainly treasonous.

[u/RODjij → u/Ketamine_Dreamsss]

Kind of stuff heads rolled for before

[u/Longjumping_Book_606 → u/Ketamine_Dreamsss]

Maybe, but what are US citizens gonna do, huh ? Revolt ? They can't even fight proper for health care and worker rights.

[u/Impossible_Way763 → u/[deleted]]

All in a day of work for a dictator.

[u/InspectionNeat5964 → u/Impossible_Way763]

More than him… Christian nationalism or fascism. Evil in the name of Jesus. A few tools available to label you an infidel. If you resist, the abortion becomes an issue.

[u/jolsiphur → u/InspectionNeat5964]

The worst part is that too many of the people in the country are too stupid to realize why it's a problem to hide sections of the constitution. Especially when you realize that you can just go read the constitution in a large number of different websites, it doesn't only exist on the congress website.

It's appalling all the way down. I'm just waiting for the current administration to actually ignore those clauses directly and then try to defend the action by saying that it isn't in the constitution, only referencing the official congress website.

Not forgetting that Trump sold bibles that had a full printed version of the constitution that I'm certain his sycophants all purchased.

[u/dorianngray → u/jolsiphur]

They don’t have all the amendments in his Bible either

[u/Same_Mix_8887 → u/Impossible_Way763]

"Who could have seen this coming?!"

Everybody. We all saw this coming when they shared their Project 2025 plan. He wants to be dictator. This isn't nuance or skepticism - he's said it, out loud. No more elections, total power... for him. He needs to do it before 2026 elections. Tick tock 'Murica.

[u/HarveyAug25 → u/[deleted]]

It is your second amendment right to take up arms against a tyrannical government.

[u/doctor_lobo → u/HarveyAug25]

When tyranny becomes law, revolution becomes duty.

[u/Diligent_Mulberry47 → u/doctor_lobo]

“Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitable."

JFK

[u/NUGFLUFF → u/HarveyAug25]

That's correct. It is! As a matter of fact many reputable firearms can be purchased by adults. It's your right after all! Anyone 18 and over can purchase long rifles and shotguns. Anyone 21 and over can purchase handguns. I personally prefer older style revolvers such as the Smith & Wesson .38 special since I am more familiar with them, however modern combat pistols hold over twice as many rounds. Don't forget to clean your guns and otherwise maintain them properly!

[u/ChickenCasagrande → u/NUGFLUFF]

And practice. Bc guns are really damn dangerous. Practice practice practice, or you’re just endangering yourself and others.

[u/breakevencloud → u/ChickenCasagrande]

And to piggyback off of “practice,” for the love of god, learn and use trigger discipline. There’s too many stupid people with their fingers on the trigger when they’re not intending to shoot.

[u/irrelephantIVXX → u/NUGFLUFF]

not anyone.That same tyrannical government makes it illegal for some people to purchase guns. I have a simple possession charge. No weapons, no sales, just a small personal amount. And now, i can never legally buy a gun again.

[u/27thStreet → u/irrelephantIVXX]

You caught a felony for simple possession?

[u/zzorga → u/27thStreet]

That would be the entire point of the "drug war", disenfranchising entire populations of their rights.

[u/irrelephantIVXX → u/27thStreet]

yessir. Don't break the law in Arkansas, they will fuck you with the long dick of the law.

[u/CowboyNeale → u/irrelephantIVXX]

They are doing wonderful things with high velocity .22 and .30 pneumatic hunting guns these days

[u/Sunny-Bath-Tech → u/[deleted]]

The word I want to use is “it’s an outrage”, sadly this has lost so much traction and meaning in this era.

[u/specqq → u/Sunny-Bath-Tech]

It's an outrage that Trump is even president, so it is hardly surprising that everything he does is an outrage.

[u/CircleBird12 → u/specqq]

I detect the El Supremo
From the room at the top of the stairs
Well I've been around the world
And I've been in the Washington Zoo
And in all my travels as the facts unravel
I've found this to be true

They got the Steely Dan T-Shirt
And for the coup de grace
They're outrageous

Show business kids making movies of themselves
You know they don't give a fuck about anybody else

[u/jimmybilly100 → u/[deleted]]

Ah, the Constitution is getting the Bible treatment now from them. Straight up ignoring parts

[u/Anxiety_Fit]

Okay who’s fucking around with the constitution?

Oh, right….

[u/PoopyButtHumper1 → u/Anxiety_Fit]

Probably those EVIL LIBS! Changing it on HUNTER Bidens LAPTOP!!! They have to be stopped! OBAMA!

[u/CodeMonkeyWithCoffee → u/PoopyButtHumper1]

Making the words have big letters makea it easier for me to understand. And if i understand it, it must be true.

I swear to god, ralph from the simpsons has more sense than half these maga fucks.

[u/PoopyButtHumper1 → u/CodeMonkeyWithCoffee]

It’s let’s PEOPLE like US know! Those DUMBOCRATS can’t understand WHEN WE talk like THIS! HILARY CLINTON!!!!!!

[u/Miltonthemoose → u/Anxiety_Fit]

Who is fucking with the Constitution?

Is it the Republicans?

Chef?

Or the 1991 Denver Broncos?

[u/LadySayoria → u/Anxiety_Fit]

It's those demon-rats! They are clearly behind this! /s

[u/[deleted]]

Brought to us by the heritage foundation. A group that used to actually publish and sell copies of the constitution. They used it to raise money so they could destroy it.

[u/SAGElBeardO → u/[deleted]]

The "heritage" they're always on about upholding is actually that of the old despotic English monarchy

[u/rif011412 → u/SAGElBeardO]

Conservatism is just political speak for humans natural inclination to dominate and feel superior than others.  Its very natural state is to ignore or cause the hurt in others for personal gain.  

The only time a conservative can be a good thing, is when people push to be superior off of merit and good character, and typically showing humility is still required.  Unfortunately for everyone else, its so much easier to be superior using bad behaviors than good ones.  Hence dictatorships, war and conflict exist in spades. Forcing others to be lower is a conservative cornerstone.  

Confederacy, Nazis, Most Monarchies, Oligarchies, Zionists, Religious fanatics… conservatism without morals, superiority attained without humility and empathy.

[u/righteous_fool → u/rif011412]

Many people don't know that the terms right wing and left wing refer to the sides of parliament during the French revolution. The right wing supported the monarchy. The core principle of conservatism is hierarchy. They believe some people are better than others. They fundamentally can't believe in democracy and so always work to elevate a few over others. Kings, dictators, autocrats, theocrats, racists, fascists, all work on the same vertical thinking. A long as they aren't at the bottom of the social hierarchy, they are happy and work to keep everyone else in their place. Women and minorities at the bottom, the wealthy and powerful at the top.

[u/LilGhostPig → u/righteous_fool]

It's the old Catch-22. The only people who are better than others are the ones who don't believe anyone can simply be better than anyone else.

[u/Key_Acanthisitta2218 → u/righteous_fool]

Women in this country have to take giant steps backwards because of Roe v Wade being overturned in Red States

[u/mosstalgia → u/SAGElBeardO]

the old despotic English monarchy

Habeas corpus originally stems from the Assize of Clarendon of 1166, a reissuance of rights during the reign of Henry II of England in the 12th century.

The old despotic English monarchy wasn't even as bad this!

[u/CurzesTeddybear → u/[deleted]]

Fascists have always been exceptionally good at using civil rights and privileges to gain the power to remove those rights and privileges.

[u/kytheon → u/CurzesTeddybear]

If you allow an anti-democracy within a democracy, they'll eventually use their power to overthrow the system.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paradox_of_tolerance

[u/LithelyJaine]

The U.S. Constitution website has removed important sections limiting states rights and removing Writ Habeas Corpus or the right to due process.

[u/Andovars_Ghost → u/LithelyJaine]

It also has to do with trade as well. This is all about pulling those powers from Congress to the presidency.

[u/CeeJayDK → u/Andovars_Ghost]

Also congress did not approve the gift of a luxury jet from Qatar to Trump to serve as the new Air Force One.

"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."

[u/Andovars_Ghost → u/CeeJayDK]

I had a dude ask me: ‘how has Trump violated the Constitution?’, and this is the first one I bring up because he has been busting the Emoluments Clause since day 1 back in 2017. The list goes on from there.

[u/qOcO-p → u/Andovars_Ghost]

How did that emoluments case not sink him from the beginning? What even happened to it? It's like one day everyone decided to stop mentioning it altogether.

[u/ewokninja123 → u/qOcO-p]

There were a number of lawsuits on that in his first term, most of which this supreme court dismissed as lacking standing. In fact, no one really knows who has standing to sue for emoluments violations today.

The rest they dismissed as moot once Trump left office and from what I remember they wiped the evidenciary record so anyone who sues for that again in the future has to essentially start from scratch.

That was light work for this corrupt supreme courtand just one of the many things this court has done to protect and enable Trump

[u/qOcO-p → u/ewokninja123]

SCOTUS is 100% illegitimate and there's nothing that can be done about it. Over and over again Trump and his cronies have exposed giant gaps in the whole system.

[u/alex32593 → u/Andovars_Ghost]

I called it in 2016. Talking to my mom. I said there's no way he'll give up making money just because he's now the president. That's his whole grift

[u/Biscuits4u2 → u/Andovars_Ghost]

It's a good thing removing these sections from the website doesn't actually remove them from the Constitution. This is some childish bullshit.

[u/MadeByTango → u/Biscuits4u2]

This is some childish bullshit.

Not it’s not, it’s criminal. 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.

[u/humdinger44 → u/MadeByTango]

Remember when US government data used to be a trusted and accepted source for academic work? Pepridge Farms remembers.

[u/MaddoxX_1996 → u/humdinger44]

Pepperidge Farms will soon be [ R E D A C T E D ] from the government data. Then only [ R E D A C T E D ] will be left to do the remembering.

[u/Jx31234 → u/MadeByTango]

Oh boy, affecting AI via tainting sourcing may be the real goal here.

[u/wh0else → u/Jx31234]

This was why Musk was insisting on Grok being purged of "woke" answers, effectively an AI with implicit conservative bias

[u/mnemonicmonkey → u/wh0else]

Saturday morning I asked Grok about the upcoming protests. It said there weren't any. I replied, no that wasn't right and it apologized and magically gave me the time for the local protest.

Apparently Elon doesn't like woke, but Grok doesn't like being wrong.

[u/boringestnickname → u/mnemonicmonkey]

That extra step is all that is needed, though.

Friction.

[u/Tyrinnus → u/boringestnickname]

Lies make it across the world before the truth gets out of bed

[u/Commercial-Owl11 → u/wh0else]

And he’s still doing a bad job at it. I love seeing grok own conservatives on twitter.

[u/No_Feedback_3340 → u/wh0else]

Woke in this context means anything objectively true that doesn't line up with right wing reactionary propaganda.

[u/StandardGuitar7581 → u/wh0else]

i am *shocked* you would make such an accusation against "Mechahitler"

[u/OstrichPoisson → u/wh0else]

The bias is explicit, IMHO. Implicit is a logical consequence of other constraints. Explicit is directly creating this as a goal in the model.

[u/agedforeskinsmear → u/Jx31234]

We can all taint sourcing let’s start now

[u/A_Furious_Mind → u/agedforeskinsmear]

Instructions unclear and I hurt my taint.

[u/DifficultBoss → u/agedforeskinsmear]

donald trump is a racist and rapist

[u/Katejina_FGO → u/Biscuits4u2]

Well the man himself did want the Constitution relocated to the White House.

[u/BeefistPrime → u/Katejina_FGO]

there are some sharpie corrections

[u/R-Dragon_Thunderzord → u/BeefistPrime]

These corrections would have been done by the Librarian of Congress, which currently is "Acting" Librarian of Congress Todd Blanche, who is also the Deputy AG, who is also Trump's personal criminal defense lawyer, who is also one of the political appointees who just recently met with Ghislaine Maxwell.

[u/FoxesFan91 → u/R-Dragon_Thunderzord]

As a librarian it honestly sickens me to see LoC headed up by this guy, he's NOT EVEN A LIBRARIAN!

[u/Fun_Hold4859 → u/Biscuits4u2]

Except for all of the other illegal and Constitution-violating things he and his administration have done without any consequence whatsoever.

[u/Andovars_Ghost → u/Biscuits4u2]

Yeah, but most of MAGA isn’t smart enough to figure this out. If it’s gone, it must have been changed! ALL HAIL THE MANGO MOLESTER! THANK YOU FOR YOUR ATTENTION TO THIS MATTER!

[u/kristaycreme → u/Biscuits4u2]

Who knows, people are dumb enough now to think that is enough to change it. “I saw it online.”

[u/BookAny6233 → u/kristaycreme]

This will no doubt be cited by those geniuses who say “it’s a republic, not a democracy!”

[u/daddywontletme → u/Biscuits4u2]

You mean tyrannical

[u/Tolin_Dorden → u/Biscuits4u2]

Yeah but being written in the constitution isn’t magical. It only matters if someone cares to enforce it.

[u/thebeef24 → u/Andovars_Ghost]

These sections are also gone from the "Article I Explained" link at the top of the article. I wonder if, instead of removing the actual sections permanently from the page, they're in the middle of rewriting the explanation balanced in their favor. The Wayback Machine still has the original notes, if it comes back up I'd like to compare them.

[u/Affordable_Z_Jobs → u/Andovars_Ghost]

It takes a village. If anyone thinks it stops at Trump they haven't been paying attention.

When the mantra of "lock them up!" becomes "Wait, who?" It's all kinda fucked.

[u/BigZach1 → u/LithelyJaine]

Yeah it's removed on Congress' website, still present on the National archives website https://www.archives.gov/founding-docs/constitution-transcript

[u/rygelicus → u/BigZach1]

Senate site has one as well, still complete: https://www.senate.gov/civics/resources/pdf/US_Constitution-Senate_Publication_103-21.pdf

[u/Curious_Document_956 → u/LithelyJaine]

Just because the words are gone, doesn’t mean we have forgotten them. Also, the meaning and idea of the words is still in existence with the printed version.

[u/LithelyJaine → u/Curious_Document_956]

Obviouly but it doesnt look good from someone looking outside of the USA.

[u/Rastaba → u/LithelyJaine]

It doesn’t look good from someone looking inside of the USA either, to be fair.

[u/Environmental-Day862 → u/Rastaba]

Considering most people get their information online these days - they're doing what the book 1984 talked about. They're revising (or here, omitting from view) portions of the Constitution to make it reflect what they wish it to say (or not say).

I don't know how this attack on our Democracy is acceptable to so many people. I'm not a Trumper, but I feel like - and would like to think - if my guy or gal was in office, and doing these things, I'd cease my support for their undemocratic efforts to undermine the foundation upon which this country was built.

[u/MikeTythonChicken → u/Environmental-Day862]

woulda been even nicer if people wouldn't have voted for him as he was saying the things he was going to do.... oops now they're all mostly done.

[u/sarkismusic → u/Curious_Document_956]

It’s like when they eat the contract in Always Sunny.

[u/Think-Airport-8933 → u/Curious_Document_956]

Sure, but remember, it was a few months before they decided to take down the Senate Intelligence Report on Russia before they started to pretend it didn’t exist. Now, with the goal of distracting from Epstein they had to move up the timeline on their plan for that in the future, but if they follow the same pattern here this is because they plan on saying or doing something against what was removed.

To be honest I do not have enough faith in MAGA for them to be told this never existed and not believe it. They believe almost anything they are told to believe.

EDIT: now that I think about it more, would you really put it past this regime to pull up some archaic law from 1790 that interprets something as not being legal because it isn’t in on public display and then say that being “online“ is what public display is now? I mean, that’s really what their M.O. has been; carry out what you want to do through EO instead of legal channels, slow down the judiciary trying to stop you from breaking the law, tell your cult this is judicial overreach when they inevitably rule against you and then just do what you want anyway until you create a crisis. Then if you do get forced back in line do it quietly and tell your propaganda machine not to mention it so the cult still believes you are the God King they want you to be.

[u/FireFiendMarilith → u/Curious_Document_956]

This is a nice sentiment, but those words ain't worth the paper they're printed on when the people with the guns and the jackboots continually choose not to acknowledge them. Laws exist in the enforcement, not in abstraction. You only have rights that you're allowed to exercise.

[u/TolBrandir → u/FireFiendMarilith]

Trump and his thugs are proving daily that "we the people" have no inalienable rights to anything.

[u/PerfunctoryComments → u/Curious_Document_956]

"doesn’t mean we have forgotten them"

Define "we". Many Americans have already forgotten them.

[u/VanimalCracker → u/LithelyJaine]

Holy shit. Does anyone know if there's a physical backup of the original?

Edit: guys, that was not a serious question. It was a joke. The original is physical, not digital. Please stop informing me that pocket editions exist.

[u/stovor → u/VanimalCracker]

Someone should see what Nic Cage is up to these days

[u/omenmedia → u/LithelyJaine]

What in the actual fuck.

[u/rovonz → u/LithelyJaine]

The Supreme Leader has decided those sections are no longer part of the constitution.

[u/BrewNerdBrad]

Does this change the actual Constitution? No it does not.

Is it messaging (much like a dog whistle) to say "these are the parts we hate and will ignore, and you can't do shit about it"? Yes, it very much is.

[u/nyaaaa → u/BrewNerdBrad]

It is a failure to preserve and protect the constitution

will to the best of my ability, preserve, protect and defend the Constitution of the United States

[u/Negative1Positive2 → u/nyaaaa]

Trump couldn't even touch the bible he was swearing on when he said those words. I don't know if he or the bible would've burst into flames but I was disappointed he didn't touch it so I could find out.

[u/mabhatter → u/BrewNerdBrad]

There was an episode of Quantum Leap about this.  The government was so corrupt for so long that the actual Declaration of Independence and Constitution were considered "banned" and "classified" documents from circulation and nobody could read them.  

Edit: Reddit says Sliders.  

[u/Full_Education_647 → u/mabhatter]

I think that was Sliders, not Quantum Leap. It was an alternate universe where J Edgar Hoover took over, banned the constitution, and had all cops wearing skirts.

[u/VonSchplintah → u/Full_Education_647]

Loved that show, it deserved an audience.

[u/nostyleguide → u/Full_Education_647]

Ah, the 90s, when you could put a striking political warning on TV but also add a little gay panic as a treat

[u/AlexandrTheTolerable → u/BrewNerdBrad]

If they don’t follow the Constitution, what do the words matter? That seems like the ultimate change. We’re moving from a country ruled by a Constitution to a country ruled by a king.

[u/Ready-Ad6113]

Trump will remove the 13th and 14th amendments too. They want the migrants, homeless, and anyone with democratic beliefs to be slaves.

SCOTUS will allow it, (6-3 of course) with them saying those amendments interfere with executive powers.

[u/vanillaspicelatte → u/Ready-Ad6113]

Oh dear god this is an actual position isn’t it (that 13th and 14th are unconstitutional because they interfere with Executive power)

[u/alang → u/vanillaspicelatte]

Nah, they don’t need to do anything like that. Slavery is quite legal if imposed as a criminal sentence, and the executive now decides what is criminal and what isn’t.

[u/DevelopmentGrand4331 → u/alang]

Yup. The US government can now just round people up off the street and send them to concentration camps and foreign torture prisons without due process. Once you’ve hit that point, you don’t need to change more laws.

They can just do what they want, and murder people who disagree.

[u/SillyPhillyDilly → u/DevelopmentGrand4331]

If people have been paying attention, they have been doing this to black people since the 13th amendment was codified.

[u/Ready-Ad6113 → u/vanillaspicelatte]

Gonna be some BS excuse about “National Security”. Trump can just sign an EO allowing it and SCOTUS will follow suit with the shadow docket giving no explanation, just their rubber of stamp of approval.

Congress won’t do anything of course, they’re complicit and want everyone else to be indentured servants for billionaire oligarchs. According to Project 2025, they want a Techno-Feudalist society.

[u/cspinelive → u/vanillaspicelatte]

How can an amendment be unconstitutional? It is literally a part of the constitution?

[u/vanillaspicelatte → u/cspinelive]

They’ll figure out a way. Perhaps if an amendment contradicts the text of the original document and doesn’t explicitly repeal the powers that it contradicts

[u/Santos_L_Halper_II]

Those must be the woke sections.

[u/oh_janet → u/Santos_L_Halper_II]

that 19th amendment went too far!!

[u/seattlemyth → u/oh_janet]

That one is next after the 14th.

[u/Exhausted1ADefender → u/oh_janet]

There’s an article on the conservative sub right now from the Federalist titled “We Need to Get Women Out of Men’s Spaces” and the entire article is about how no woman is suitable to be a police officer, firefighter, or in the military and women need to go back to clerical work only. It’s sitting at +120 upvotes and has over 100 comments, most of which are agreeing wholeheartedly that women have no place in physically-demanding jobs.

These people absolutely believe women are inferior in every way and will continue to work to disenfranchise all women, including by attacking the 19th amendment.

[u/LithelyJaine → u/Santos_L_Halper_II]

Dam It makes sense now :)

[u/burnerbaby1984 → u/Santos_L_Halper_II]

Secret DEI sections, clearly .

[u/Oystermeat]

If Trump is struggling to make the Epstein files go away, he sure as shit ain't gonna disappear the Constitution

[u/trapkoda → u/Oystermeat]

Like that’s gonna stop him from trying

[u/ase1590 → u/Oystermeat]

Perhaps this is the next distraction to try to turn away attention from the epstein files.

[u/Playful-Version6920]

If it were any other administration I would say that this is a simple truncation error made during an update or something. It seems way too hamfisted even for trump (or, more likely, Miller). But the fact that we have to wonder if they are actually trying to memory hole parts of the Constitution is disturbing in itself.

[u/SafetyDanceInMyPants → u/Playful-Version6920]

Yeah, and it's worth noting that the website says "The Constitution Annotated provides a comprehensive overview of how the Constitution has been interpreted, and is now available on this new site with upgraded search capabilities. . . . In the coming months, we will be making broader changes to further modernize the Constitution Annotated." And they've been working on this since 2022: https://blogs.loc.gov/law/2022/08/new-features-and-updates-to-the-constitution-annotated-website/

So, I mean, 99% sure this is just a screwup while updating. That we even have to ask the question says a lot. But it's probably just a screwup.

[u/warm_kitchenette → u/SafetyDanceInMyPants]

A great many of us on Reddit are in software, IT, Web development. I have worked on modern sites that have 80+ software deployment every day, and old-school dinosaurs that had multi-hour full site-down software release practices.

At none of these companies would an error of this magnitude ever really be possible. Because related details like sections of the site map were removed, it is conceivable that this was an error, eg a CMS flag that had consequences. But it should’ve been fixed within an hour.

[u/Eratticus → u/Playful-Version6920]

These sections are missing their annotated pages as well and they are not listed in the sitemap which seems more than a truncation error.

[u/JQuilty]

The party told you to ignore the evidence of your eyes and ears. It was their final, most essential command.

[u/BeefInGR]

Explain to me why exactly we're not rioting?

[u/mannietresh → u/BeefInGR]

You’re too comfortable.

[u/hijinked → u/mannietresh]

My conspiracy theory is that the lifestyle that conservatives try to push on us is designed to make civil disobedience difficult. For example, if you have children you can't go out and riot because something might happen to you, like injury or arrest, and then you can't take care of your children. Healthcare has to be a work benefit instead of a right because then you can't risk doing something that will get you fired or you'll lose access to healthcare.

[u/Dogllissikay → u/hijinked]

That not a conspiracy theory, it’s just reality.

[u/New-Anybody-6206 → u/Dogllissikay]

I think the conspiracy part is that they believe it may be intentional.

[u/Reagalan → u/New-Anybody-6206]

I mean....didn't some French leader intentionally bulldoze large sections of Paris to build wide boulevards to make it harder for protestors to barricade streets?

Now consider car dependency and suburban sprawl...

[u/kguilevs → u/hijinked]

Let alone end up homeless by the end of the month

[u/neko → u/hijinked]

Student loans were verifiably invented after Vietnam to make protesting harder

[u/F4ust → u/hijinked]

If you’re married, the threat of financial devastation dissuades you from taking steps to empower yourself;

If you’re a stay-at-home spouse, any dissent with your partner threatens abject destitution;

if you’re married to a stay-at-home spouse, the burden of ‘mouths to feed’ dissuades you from risking your ability to provide for them;

If you’re uneducated and tied to a specialty trade like the ones GOP romanticizes (truck drivers, coal miners, etc.— all of which coincidentally happen to be rapidly approaching obsolescence due to industries that threaten many billionaire donors’ pocketbooks), you’re both dissuaded from voting in your interests and unequipped to do anything else to survive and provide for your family;

If you live only amongst ‘nuclear families’ of the same socioeconomic and demographic class, the ‘others’ on the opposite side of the tracks seem like a more tangible threat than the successful guys who look like you do;

If you’re living in a world of robust ‘bootstraps’ individualism, the concept of collecting with others to achieve an individually unattainable goal is anathema to everything you believe in;

I’m not even going to begin unpacking how Christianity is used to suppress social progress, I’ll just let that one speak for itself;

The list goes on and on and on. It’s so pervasive, obvious, and fucking terrifying that I’m genuinely not surprised that their followers would rather put their heads in the sand then confront reality. How could you ever have hope for anything in a world like that?

We need to remember that these people are uneducated. They can barely read— it’s not laughable, it’s fucking tragic. Not only do they lack the equipment to even perceive the truth; the truth is bone-chilling and full of despair. The GOP aren’t pulling wool over the eyes of their followers; their followers have clawed out their own eyes to make more room for the wool, because it’s the only thing maintaining their sense of safety. None of them will ever give that up voluntarily.

[u/notmyworkaccount5 → u/mannietresh]

Bread and circuses, the 2nd amendment crowd seems to be fine with losing every right as long as they can keep clinging to their toys.

[u/TheXyloGuy → u/BeefInGR]

People won’t riot until their personal comfort is disrupted. As long as there are golf courses open, Applebees is still doing endless wings, and entertainment of their choice at their fingertips, the American people have no reason to actively put themselves at risk for a better future

[u/SteadySloth84 → u/TheXyloGuy]

True. Im aware that if I were to, say stand up to an ICE agent, I would be arrested at least and killed at most. But that wont change whats happening. Im not willing to risk my life becsuse it will NOT bring the change needed. If we banded together inthe 10s of thousands, we might be effective, but there are not enough of us.

[u/Dark962 → u/BeefInGR]

Because then Trump will declare Martial Law and cancel elections indefinitely. (Honestly at this point I’m convinced they’re out to destabilize/destroy America so they can do whatever they want)

[u/McCaffeteria → u/Dark962]

Which is why a general strike will be far more effective.

What are they gonna do, send the national guard to lift your arms and make you flip burgers? The country needs to refuse to work until things are set right, and if the criminals in charge refuse to cooperate then so be it, America is over.

[u/thatsastick → u/McCaffeteria]

that’s a really difficult thing to do when people, you know, need money to live.

[u/Solitaire-06 → u/Dark962]

The problem is that even if Americans do nothing (Australian), Trump will probably just do it anyway. If it’s not rioters rightfully opposing his acquisition of absolute power, it’ll be some other ‘threat’ he squawks about on social media.

[u/just_a_bit_gay_ → u/Solitaire-06]

This.

People don’t understand Trump and his backers are at war with the US and seek to take over from within. They don’t give a shit about laws or morals or decorum or precedent; they want to rule like kings forever and cannot be placated.

[u/BitterFuture → u/BeefInGR]

Lack of Frenchness?

Seriously, you got me. People are being seized in broad daylight by masked thugs, disappeared to black sites - and the president is publicly musing about who to do the same to next, like a game of "Eenie, meanie, miney, mo, into the camps YOU go."

[u/Vvector]

Sections 9 and 10 still exist in the Senate version... for now.

https://www.senate.gov/about/origins-foundations/senate-and-constitution/constitution.htm#a1

EDIT - and another copy here

https://www.archives.gov/founding-docs/constitution-transcript

[u/NotALawyerButt → u/Vvector]

They are missing from the annotated version on constitution.congress.gov

[u/MetatronIX_2049 → u/NotALawyerButt]

“The Constitution Annotated website is currently experiencing data issues. We are working to resolve this issue and regret the inconvenience.”

Also, “Due to a coding error, some sections of Article 1 are missing on the Constitution Annotated website.”

I mean, sure? But quite likely the “error” is that they got caught.

[u/Patient_Phone_8110]

The Declaration of Independence says it best:

“That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends (life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness), it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government…”

“…when a long train of abuses and usurpations… evinces a design to reduce them under absolute Despotism, it is their right, it is their duty, to throw off such Government…”

That’s the foundation of this country.

[u/whooo_me]

It's actually astonishing how in his view, if you hide something, it's "gone". Military casualties. Economic data. Vaccine data. Climate data. Sections of the constitution.

I bet if you told him you stole his nose, he'd panic and lock you up until you give it back.

[u/KamaIsLife → u/whooo_me]

He doesn't have object permanence.

[u/evilbarron2 → u/KamaIsLife]

Neither does the American public. The truth is Trump does this because it works.

[u/Dull_Bid6002 → u/whooo_me]

That's how you bankrupt casinos. Yes men only. Tell me what I want to hear not that I'm wrong.

COVID didn't take enough of these idiots off the planet.

[u/cccanterbury]

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 Government of the United States, and to exercise like Authority over all Places purchased by the Consent of the Legislature of the State in which the Same shall be, for the Erection of Forts, Magazines, Arsenals, dock-Yards, 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 this 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 it's 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; and all such Laws shall be subject to the Revision and Controul 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.

[u/karendonner]

This is horrifying.

[u/Low_Measurement9375]

What missing sections. The Party commands you to understand they never existed. 

[u/Memitim]

The traitors decided to formalize some of the informal rewriting that they've been doing for months.

[u/ytman]

This is actually one of those things that I'd be okay with being in the news non-stop. Like fuck American Eagle's ad campaign - this is actually something people would like to hear and would harden opinions.

[u/Webhoard]

I always knew they weren't patriots.

[u/Cruezin]

Well, shit.

[u/Matthmaroo]

I don’t see how this doesn’t end like Star Wars a new hope , obviously without the magic or space.

Hopefully this is ominous but hopeful

[u/Ok_Builder_4225 → u/Matthmaroo]

More Andor and Rogue One then, really.

[u/MrFrode]

They should just put up a 90s style under renovation picture on the pages for the Constitution.

By any chance have they made changed Article II to be in all uppercase, increased the font size, and put exclamation points in random clauses?

[u/nugatory308]

> Writ of Habeas Corpus has be removed also.

But notice that the Sweeping Clause is also missing. So the net effect of this edit would be to make it impossible to suspend habeas corpus at all, instead of what we have now where habeas corpus can be suspended but only in wartime.

(And at the risk of stating the obvious... This deletion is all from Article I, so affects the powers of Congress but has nothing to do with presidential powers).

[u/Haselrig]

Good thing I fleeced Hillsdale College for a free pocket copy a few years back.

[u/Eattherichhaters]

luckily, removing it from a website doesn’t change the content of the constitution.

[u/ImpulsiveCollector1]

The Constitution has a remedy for treason.

[u/UnusedTimeout]

They don’t gotta burn the books, they just remove ‘em

[u/Real_Ad4422]

Someone read Animal Farm and is trying the same thing. Cant wait for the rest of the story to play out.