Constitution.congress.gov is the U.S. Congress's official website presenting the Constitution of the United States of America. Visitors noticed this morning that passages from it were missing, as can be shown by comparison with snapshots of the page at the Internet Archive's Wayback Machine. Sections 9 and 10 are removed completely, as is much of Section 8.

The text removed is contiguous, suggesting a single act of deletion and therefore making it seem more likely to be the result of incompetence than intent. And the website is just that, a copy for public consumption. The U.S. constitution can only be changed by amendments proposed by Congress or a national convention and ratified by three-fourths of the states.

The provisions removed include topical live wires for the Trump Administrat

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