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Have sections of the US Constitution gone missing from government website?

George Washington's signature is seen on the first US president's personal copy of the acts of the first Congress in 1789, containing the US Constitution and the proposed Bill of Rights [File: Alex Brandon/AP]

It didn’t take long for internet sleuths to notice that something was missing on the Library of Congress website that annotates the United States Constitution.

Reddit users pointed out on Wednesday that the website omitted text from some sections of Article 1, which include provisions about the right of habeas corpus as well as limits on congressional and state power. Using the Internet Archive’s Wayback Machine, people found that the full text appeared on the Library of Congress website on July 17 but was missing in snapshots after that date.

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