Hacker News Board Hacker News, browsed like a classic message board
Live data from Hacker News

Constitution of the United States Website has removed sections

reddit.com

Post reply on HN
Print view View original

51–60 of 176 posts

Re: Constitution of the United States Website has removed sections

#51

Post by chabes »

AlexandrB wrote: post #30
frogperson wrote: post #14

Earlier quoted context omitted.

We are waaayyy passed that line. We are, for just about every definition, living in an authoritarian state. Trump has immunity, from the Supreme Court, support in the house and senate, support of the media, and enough support from the military. Freaadom isnt free. I think americans forget that. They are waiting for someone else to come save them, which will NEVER happen.

[flagged]

Trump is a headline generator. The media undoubtedly supports him.

Epstein headlines are big engagement vectors, yet haven’t seemed to bring about any sort of accountability. They can report on things that make him look bad, and he remains in power, with his supporters still supporting him despite the evidence presented.

Re: Constitution of the United States Website has removed sections

#52

Post by ahmeneeroe-v2 »

CalRobert wrote: post #3

Good use case for a git diff. The removed bits discuss habeaus corpus, emoluments, and congressional oversight of the military.

They removed the part about providing for a Navy! Trump must be trying to abolish the whole Navy for his personal gain!

Re: Constitution of the United States Website has removed sections

#53

Post by AlexandrB »

frogperson wrote: post #19
sundaeofshock wrote: post #5

Earlier quoted context omitted.

True, but I’m glad they are making it public. The old US is gone; time to figure out where we go from here.

Well, the first step is cutting out the cancer, healing can not begin until then.

By "cancer" do you mean ~50% of the US population? That sounds pretty extreme. What does "cutting out" the cancer mean here?

Re: Constitution of the United States Website has removed sections

#55

Post by foolswisdom »

Levitz wrote: post #35
foolswisdom wrote: post #20

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Why not? Congress is meant to be a check on the other branches of government (though the filibuster rule / partisan omnibus bill system has degraded its collective will, which is why they won't do anything), so pre-emptively removing the powers of congress from the list sounds like a power grab. It's not like it's something completely irrelevant. Same for the limitations of government listed there. Besides, the thing…

Because this is a government website and not the actual constitution. It's absurd. This is just not how any of this works.

Power is power when it is exercised, and power can be exercised when people think you have the power. Overly formalizing things and ignoring how they play out is why congress is today a dysfunctional body, for example. See also here for an example in practice https://prototypingpolitics.substack.com/p/dead-letter-live-...

Re: Constitution of the United States Website has removed sections

#56

Post by assword »

jddj wrote: post #43

The Reddit thread is reasonably inflamed, but the theory about changing reality downstream by changing the sources that chatbots ingest is a chilling one.

LLM’s mark the true beginning of a post truth world. That’s why the serial liars are so excited.

Re: Constitution of the United States Website has removed sections

#59

Post by foolswisdom »

andrewla wrote: post #36

[flagged]

> It does appear that this is part of a site-wide refactor where some material got lost because the same truncation is visible in the annotation page

You mean that if you already assume it wasn't malicious, there must be a problem that affected multiple pages because the source material in the build somewhere got lost.

Re: Constitution of the United States Website has removed sections

#60

Post by tzs »

NoMoreNicksLeft wrote: post #8
CalRobert wrote: post #3

Good use case for a git diff. The removed bits discuss habeaus corpus, emoluments, and congressional oversight of the military.

I wanted to do the Constitution (and US law in general) in git, but dates before unix epoch weren't possible. I don't think it's since been fixed. I had went so far as to start digging up treaties (about 700 of them, ratified) and draft constitutions (would have been non-master branches of some sort). It would be nice if Congress and legislatures actually used git as a matter of law, having names attached to every co…

> I wanted to do the Constitution (and US law in general) in git, but dates before unix epoch weren't possible

Perhaps add a fixed offset to dates to bring them past the Unix epoch?

Post reply on HN