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.
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 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.