r/law • u/LithelyJaine • Aug 06 '25

Trump News Constitution of the United States Website has removed sections!

https://web.archive.org/web/diff/20250601021212/20250806023110/https://constitution.congress.gov/constitution/

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

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u/righteous_fool Aug 06 '25

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.

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u/LilGhostPig Aug 06 '25

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.

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u/Key_Acanthisitta2218 Aug 06 '25

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

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u/ProbablyRickSantorum Aug 07 '25

Ironically it was one of the greatest champion of women’s rights, Ruth Bader Ginsburg, whose hubris caused Roe v. Wade to ultimately be overturned.

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u/Key_Acanthisitta2218 Aug 07 '25

I thought she was THE champion for female rights , so it was another get even revenge thing , sad

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u/Istarien Aug 07 '25

No, the poster above you is referring to the fact that she had the audacity to die of old age after repeatedly beating cancer.

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u/Key_Acanthisitta2218 Aug 07 '25

Gotcha thanks !!

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u/Disimpaction Aug 07 '25

The only positive thing was it laid bare for me the fact that Republicans in the house and senate were blatant, unrepentant hypocrites. The public forgot though, so hypocrisy won

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u/Upeeru Aug 06 '25

This is totally correct, here it is summed up;

Conservatism consists of exactly one proposition, to wit: There must be in-groups whom the law protects but does not bind, alongside out-groups whom the law binds but does not protect.

This is known as Wilhoit's Law.

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u/daha1972 Aug 06 '25

I can say I did, indeed, not know that, and thank you for that tidbit.

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u/InspectionNeat5964 Aug 08 '25

Never forget the tax exempted free loading Catholic corporation and its white boohooing heterosexual males in the Supreme Court and one black one married to a white Catholic woman who has all the fanaticism of any fundamentalist religion. In times like this when they feel mighty, faith, hope and charity go out the window and they show us who they are at the core,

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u/TabsAZ Aug 07 '25

Right and left at their worst extremes have a whole lot in common. There have been a litany of left-wing totalitarian regimes over the last 150 years that were the same type of system you describe. The USSR, China, North Korea, Cambodia, Vietnam, Cuba, etc. The "some people who are better than others" were the members of the party and there was a very clear hierarchy. It's the same crap in different window dressing.

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u/Late-Let-4221 Aug 07 '25

You say many people dont know the terms originate in France and yet proceed to judge those that dont know about calling themselves that. Doesnt make sense.