Kicker: The missing Constitution

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MARY REICHARD, HOST: Last week, the U.S. Constitution pulled a disappearing act, at least online.

The Library of Congress’s ‘Constitution Annotated’ site lost chunks of the founding document. Here’s David Birdsell, Kean University Provost on Fox 5 New York:

BIRDSELL: What was missing most prominently is Article One, Section nine, which guarantees people the right not to simply be apprehended without cause.

Well, it was no coup despite some online hysterics. Just a coding glitch. Internet sleuths saw it, the Library fixed it, and the good ol’ U.S. Constitution is the same.

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