Edit: as pointed out in a comment below, the official cause is coding error

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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[–] 71 points 1 year ago* (13 children)

Holy shit, it’s indexed in search engines but 404s:

https://constitution.congress.gov/browse/article-1/section-9/

Removed here too:

https://constitution.congress.gov/browse/article-1/

Here are sections 9/10 on another government website, just to make sure I’m not crazy: https://www.archives.gov/founding-docs/constitution-transcript#1-9

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  • [–] 47 points 1 year ago (6 children)

    Yeah that pretty much confirms it wasn't just a text based whoopsie. Which... there's no real reason to be modifying the contents of that page anyways. Even the browse article 1 section no longer has links to section 9 or 10.

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  • [–] 15 points 1 year ago* (5 children)

    I mean… they could be automated indexes and something got accidentally deleted from a database?

    I am playing devils advocate and grasping at straws here, though. The implications are also profoundly stupid (especially since other .gov websites are intact).

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  • [–] 18 points 1 year ago (3 children)

    Yeah that would make sense to automate if the text was changing frequently. But ... it's not.

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  • [–] 11 points 1 year ago (5 children)

    Help! I tried to archive https://constitution.congress.gov/browse/article-1/ -- but it won't show up in archive.org. It tells me I can go to:

    Did the government break wayback, too?

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