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His sycophants told him his popularity was going through the roof, so he went up there to look for it.
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The Amendment are still all there. There are a lot of miscellaneous provisions in Article I, Section 9, not just habeas corpus. Thatās also where the prohibition on bills of attainder and ex post facto laws are (a bill of attainder is a law which declares a person or persons guilty of a crime, and an ex post facto law is one which creates punishments for actions which were not illegal at the time they were taken), bans on favoring one state over another in commerce or imposing duties on imports or exports from a state, and the ban on titles of nobility. That last one made me raise an eyebrow.
Section 10 prohibits states from doing things like making treaties with foreign governments, imposing duties on foreign exports, or waging war on their own.
I canāt see much reason for omitting these. If this were some intentional effort to mislead people about what the Constitution does or doesnāt say, there are other sections and amendments I think would be more impactful. Limits on executive power in Article II, for example.
Anyway, Iāve posted this somewhere before, but since the issue has come up, a really good resource for the Constitution, as well as other law, is the Cornell Law Schoolās Legal Information Instituteās website. You can access the entire US Constitution, with annotations, as well as the US Code, Civil law, Criminal law, state law, all kinds of resources. Bookmark it if you keep bookmarks of useful resources.
ETA: The other thing I like about this website is that itās pretty bare bones. There are no flashy graphics or embedded apps. And, best of all, no ads.
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That depends on where you check.
https://constitution.congress.gov/constitution/article-1/
Congress webpage, not there.
Senate webpage still has them up.
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And, of course, āNO!!!ā really means āIām just teasing, keep goingā.
(Bleh. I feel sleazy just typing that.)
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Theyāre still on the congressional site. Use the right and left navigation buttons.
https://constitution.congress.gov/constitution/amendment-2/
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Weird, I thought raw milk was what replaced vaccinations.
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I apparently hadnāt fully woken up yet and confused Article and Amendment. Nevertheless, I canāt find sections 9 and 10 of Article 1 on that site. And Article 8 cuts off prematurely.
ETA: Apologies if weāre talking past each other.
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Or maybeā¦
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Iām a big fan of the Law Comic version myself. I go back and read it every so often so I donāt forget.
Itās worth reading. So much of it is written in plain language that it never ceases to me how easy it is for people to twist and corrupt it to meet their agenda. For all the āoriginalismā in todayās SCOTUS, they sure do love inventing things from nothing to benefit Republicans.
ETA sitting here waiting for a Drs appointment and reading it again. Pretty shocking just how much power Congress is abdicating these days. Like, what the fuck do you people even do anymore?
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I have the songs from Schoolhouse Rock! in my vast music collection. While it does make a hell of a switch going from say Rob Zombie to Jack Sheldon (āIām Just a Billā), itās still a lovely bit of my childhood that remains mostly positive. (Iāll note my cynicism over some of the US History ones does make me skip those as itās difficult to not get pissed off about the inaccuracies and outright nationalistic propaganda of those.)
Ahem.
Anyway, this popped up last night while I was washing dishes. Iām starting to think we need to bring some of these back into national focus.
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Didnāt they do something similar in the previous child rapist term? Maybe it was the removal of the entire constitution?
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These days are like:
As I was reading that annotated Constitution earlier today, the margin had a note pointing out how the article enumerating the powers of Congress are very deliberately placed before that of the President. Almost as if the framers felt that the legislative branch was meant to be of higher importance than that of the executive.
But, fuck all that, right? SCOTUS has declared the framers wanted unchecked bribery toward politicians, unlimited access to guns, corporate personhood, unlimited capitalism, zero government regulations, selective voting rights, state-sponsored religion, no rules for the oligarchy, and unlimited executive power (as long as thereās an āRā next to the executiveās name).
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Of course. You know, āOriginalismā and all that happy horseshit. Translated as āSuck it, we own you now!ā
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And itās also (still) a lie.
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Itās chump change compared to his Presidential Grifting anyway.
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