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Constitution Sections on Due Process and Foreign Gifts Just Vanished from Congress' Website

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Congress’ website for the U.S. Constitution was changed to delete the last two sections of Article I, which include provisions such as habeas corpus, forbidding the naming of titles of nobility, and forbidding foreign emoluments for U.S. officials.

The last full version of the webpage, archived by the Internet Archive on July 17, still included the now-deleted sections. Parts of Section 8 of Article I, as well as all of Sections 9 and 10 of Article I are now gone from the live site. The deletions, as of August 6, are also archived here. The change was spotted by users on Lemmy, an open-source aggregation platform and forum. 

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This webpage, maintained by the U.S. government, hasn’t changed significantly in the entire time it’s been saved by the Internet Archive’s Wayback Machine—since 2019. The page for the Constitution on the National Archives website remains unchanged, and shows the entire document.   

"Due to a technical error, some sections of Article 1 were temporarily missing on the Constitution Annotated website," a spokesperson for the Library of Congress told 404 Media in an email on Wednesday afternoon. "This problem has been corrected, and the missing sections have been restored."

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