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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
(constitution.congress.gov)
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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
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.
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).
Except that going to Article 8...
https://constitution.congress.gov/browse/article-1/section-8/
Article 8 ends at Clause 12 about the Army. In the original there are 18 Clauses.
So it's not just that 9 and 10 are gone, the details for 8 stop at the exact same point!
That's really getting into deeply unlikely to be an accident territory.
Yeah that would make sense to automate if the text was changing frequently. But ... it's not.
And yet it seems to be.
I see what you did there
Could still be some standard database.
Again, I emphasize, I am grasping at straws here… An accident or corruption like this would be an incredible coincidence.
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?
I thought I read an article recently about the government taking over one of the archive sites.
It isn't part of the government, but was designated an official federal depository library . There are over 1000 such libraries, but archive.org is the most 'digital'.
Wayback does have some option to archive error pages, I’ve seen recently… hmm
I can't get it to work either.
That's what they got up to while everybody was busy with the Epstein stuff.