Article 1, Section 9: Powers Denied Congress
"The Migration or Importation of such Persons as any of the States now existing shall think proper to admit, shall not be prohibited by the Congress prior to the Year one thousand eight hundred and eight, but a Tax or duty may be imposed on such Importation, not exceeding ten dollars for each Person."
Without this paragraph, MAGA Congresspeople can simply deport anyone they want to, and prohibit immigration of anyone they want to, for any reason, and ignore judicial orders to the contrary.
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Article 1, Section 9: Powers Denied Congress
"The Privilege of the Writ of Habeas Corpus shall not be suspended, unless when in Cases of Rebellion or Invasion the public Safety may require it."
Without this paragraph, MAGA Congress can declare martial law for any reason at any time. They can imprison anyone at any time for any reason, or for no reason at all. Courts are no longer required to present you or anyone with the reason you are imprisoned.
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Article 1, Section 9: Powers Denied Congress
"No Bill of Attainder or ex post facto Law shall be passed."
Without this sentence, MAGA Congress can now simply declare a person guilty of any crime and impose sentencing without a trial.
In addition, MAGA Congress can now punish you for crime committed before a law was passed making it illegal.
For instance, they could declare homosexuality illegal today, and imprison you tomorrow without a trial, for kissing your girlfriend yesterday.
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Article 1, Section 9: Powers Denied Congress
"No Capitation, or other direct, Tax shall be laid, unless in Proportion to the Census or enumeration herein before directed to be taken."
Without this sentence, MAGA Congress can levy "headcount" taxes for simply existing.
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Article 1, Section 9: Powers Denied Congress
"No Tax or Duty shall be laid on Articles exported from any State."
Without this sentence, MAGA Congress can levy export taxes on individual states within the US.
For instance, they could levy an export tariff on all goods exported from California to any of the other 49 states of America. It essentially allows them to treat individual states like foreign countries.
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Article 1, Section 9: Powers Denied Congress
"No Preference shall be given by any Regulation of Commerce or Revenue to the Ports of one State over those of another: nor shall Vessels bound to, or from, one State, be obliged to enter, clear, or pay Duties in another."
Without this paragraph, MAGA Congress can now set different tariff rates for the same goods imported to the US but through different ports of entry.
For example, they could say all Chinese goods imported to America through Corpus Christi, TX are tariffed at 0%, but Chinese goods imported to America through Los Angeles must pay a 500% tariff.
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Article 1, Section 9: Powers Denied Congress
"No Money shall be drawn from the Treasury, but in Consequence of Appropriations made by Law; and a regular Statement and Account of the Receipts and Expenditures of all public Money shall be published from time to time."
The loss of this paragraph effectively disbands congressional appropriations committees, allowing Congress to draw money directly from the Treasury without saying what they're using it for or providing a written account of their spending.
For instance, any individual MAGA Congressperson could just withdraw $100b dollars from the US Treasury and spend it on funding a secret police in their state and building secret concentration camps in their state and there would be no paper trail of their actions whatsoever.
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@Lana@beige.party Loss of this paragraph? Was there a Constitutional amendment passed that I missed?
Article 1, Section 9: Powers Denied Congress
"No Title of Nobility shall be granted by the United States: And no Person holding any Office of Profit or Trust under them, shall, without the Consent of the Congress, accept of any present, Emolument, Office, or Title, of any kind whatever, from any King, Prince, or foreign State."
Without this paragraph, MAGA Congress can now declare Donald Trump king of America, and foreign dignitaries can now legally shower him in billions of dollars of gifts and bribes.
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@Lana@beige.party What's on congress.gov is a printout, a representation, not THE Constitution.
Some a**hole just removed it from the public eye ON THAT WEBSITE.
On constitutioncenter.org and a number of other websites, you can still read the Constitution in its entirety.
Article I, section 8, was also removed from Congress' website; that talks about tariffs.
Article 1, Section 10: Limits the powers of states
Clause 1 Proscribed Powers
"No State shall enter into any Treaty, Alliance, or Confederation; grant Letters of Marque and Reprisal; coin Money; emit Bills of Credit; make any Thing but gold and silver Coin a Tender in Payment of Debts; pass any Bill of Attainder, ex post facto Law, or Law impairing the Obligation of Contracts, or grant any Title of Nobility."
Without this paragraph, southern states can now enter into alliances with foreign nations all on their own, or even create alliances amongst themselves. The deletion of this paragraph removes legal roadblocks which made the Civil War era Confederacy an illegal and illegitimate government.
Individual states may now print their own currency (including, now, Bitcoin), imprison people without a trial, pass laws that have retroactive legal consequences, and set up individual monarchies.
For instance, Donald Trump could declare himself Emperor of the United States, and Greg Abbott could declare himself King of Texas. King Abbott could then declare all abortions in Texas to be retroactively illegal and start rounding up women accused of having an abortion and imprisoning them in secret concentration camps without a trial.
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Article 1, Section 10: Limits the powers of states
Clause 2 Import-Export
"No State shall, without the Consent of the Congress, lay any Imposts or Duties on Imports or Exports, except what may be absolutely necessary for executing its inspection Laws: and the net Produce of all Duties and Imposts, laid by any State on Imports or Exports, shall be for the Use of the Treasury of the United States; and all such Laws shall be subject to the Revision and Control of the Congress."
Without this paragraph, individual MAGA states can now impose their own tariffs on goods imported from or exported to other states. And the money collected from such tariffs can now be used directly by state governments and do not have to be sent directly to the federal Treasury.
For example, Texas could declare all imports from California are subject to a 500% import tariff, or that all Texas goods exported to New York are subject to a 500% export tariff. And the money collected by those tariffs can be used by Texas itself for any reason.
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What they post "as a joke" today is what they're going to try to do tomorrow. And tbh I don't have a lot of confidence that SCOTUS would stop them from just doing that.
@servelan@newsie.social @Lana@beige.party
Article 1, Section 10: Limits the powers of states
Clause 3 Acts Requiring Consent of Congress
"No State shall, without the Consent of Congress, lay any Duty of Tonnage, keep Troops, or Ships of War in time of Peace, enter into any Agreement or Compact with another State, or with a foreign Power, or engage in War, unless actually invaded, or in such imminent Danger as will not admit of delay."
Without this paragraph, individual states can now declare war on foreign governments, or on other states. This literally recreates the civil war era Confederacy.
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Though I've also seen speculation that it could be an even stupider reason, like they just fucked up something in a site or CMS update
https://bsky.app/profile/vurcease.bsky.social/post/3lvqhpgt77c2k
@servelan@newsie.social @Lana@beige.party
@JessTheUnstill@infosec.exchange @servelan@newsie.social
Continuity across multiple documents, and specific interrelated portions of law that just happen to be the ones Trump is violating is not a goof or a clerical error. This was deliberate.
The best case scenario here is it was done deliberately as a form of protest. Somebody trying to hack the news cycle to bring attention to Trump's unconstitutional actions.
The medium case scenario is it's someone at DOGE or whatever deliberately doing this for the memes or the luls or whatever the fuck.
The bad case scenario is it was done deliberately by someone in Trump's inner circle as a trial balloon, to see what they can get away with.
The worst case scenario is it's exactly what we all think it was.
There is no plausible scenario here where this was not a deliberate action by SOME actor. It doesn't pass the sniff test.
@JessTheUnstill@infosec.exchange @servelan@newsie.social
Continuity across multiple documents, and specific interrelated portions of law that just happen to be the ones Trump is violating is not a goof or a clerical error. This was deliberate.
The best case scenario here is it was done deliberately as a form of protest. Somebody trying to hack the news cycle to bring attention to Trump's unconstitutional actions.
The medium case scenario is it's someone at DOGE or whatever deliberately doing this for the memes or the luls or whatever the fuck.
The bad case scenario is it was done deliberately by someone in Trump's inner circle as a trial balloon, to see what they can get away with.
The worst case scenario is it's exactly what we all think it was.
There is no plausible scenario here where this was not a deliberate action by SOME actor. It doesn't pass the sniff test.
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