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 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.