Edit: as pointed out in a comment below, the official cause is coding error
Compare with the original, from a few weeks back
Half of section 8, governing Congressional power over the military is removed.
Section 9 had, among other things:
- Habeas Corpus the right to get a court hearing instead of arbitrary imprisonment
- a ban on foreign emoluments for the US officials (eg: payments from foreign governments)
Section 10 reserved foreign policy for the federal government instead of the states.
So the constitution is the foundational legal document in the US, determining the powers of each part of government. If they actually stripped out these parts, it would mean no oversight over the military for Congress, no right to go to court to contest an unjust imprisonment, and no restrictions on payments by foreign governments to US officials among other things.
It was either a coding error, as the Library of Congress is saying or a really ham-handed way to announce an additional step towards dictatorship, which are now being walked back as too outrageous, using a the pretext of a coding error as a way to save face. I doubt we’ll ever find out which.
Thanks for the thorough explanation! I’m wishing you all the best from across the Pond, I sadly think you have some really hard years ahead of you.