It's fine, it's just paper absent anyone actually enforcing it. Whatcha gonna do about it, rise up?
I love that this says "key sections" of the Constitution. It's a gigantic chunk of Article I, including authorization to form a Navy and the prohibition on unilateral duties of tonnage. It's all a gigantic scheme to allow Kentucky to issue letters of marque and reprisal!
If the Founding Fathers had wanted the Constitution to be on a website, they’d have done it that way to begin with. Parchment, quill, and some ink was good enough for them; it’s certainly good enough for us.
Wayback doesn't seem to have the version with those sections deleted. Somebody must have reverted the changes before they got a snapshot.
They just reappeared in the British Museum
Four legs good, two legs bad
@dang why is this flagged?
A really basic consideration of the situation gives us the very likely explanation. The idea that Trump was sitting at his desk and randomly pissed about the bottom 1/6th of Section 1 and was like "take that off congress's website!" is basically zero.
1. It's congress's website, not the whitehouse's
2. It's clearly a sort of crappy development approach - the website uses jquery and fontawesome and adobe analytics. this isn't FAANG level engineering happening here
3. It's a website about EXPLAINING THE CONSTITUTION. What do we know people use to make summaries or explanations of things? LLMs, of course
4. What is known for randomly deleting and omitting stuff? Also LLMs!
5. Can we guess why an LLM would have deleted that part? Why yes, actually, we can: if you go to the explanation part of the site, do you know what's also missing (and was prior to this update too?). Wow, it's the bottom part of section 1! What a coincidence
The clear answer here is: someone was using an LLM to write, review, or edit content, and it deleted the bottom of section 1 because there wasn't an explanation to go along with it. It makes even more sense that this is what happening given that this section was already missing an explanation.
It's really tiring how some underpaid intern making a mistake on a website has people suggesting trump is committing a new form of treason.
I know a previous submission got flagged quickly but this isn’t a small thing. Yes it’s a deletion on one site of many. Yes the physical text hasn’t changed. Yes it’s likely an error.
But the stability of the US and its ability to be a good environment for business is predicated upon it being a country governed by laws. This is further evidence, even if it’s just an error, that the current government is cavalier in a way that others have not been in a long time.