The claim spread to other social media sites, such as Facebook (archived) and Bluesky (archived), where people added that the section disallowing the government from granting titles of nobility also was removed. Many Snopes readers reached out to ask whether the rumor was true after seeing it online.
The claim was true. Portions of Article 1, Section 8, as well as the entirety of Article 1, sections 9 and 10, were removed from the text of the Constitution on the Library of Congress' Constitution website as of Aug. 6, 2025.
The Library of Congress maintains a website with information on the Constitution, including a page that is meant to contain the full text of the Constitution with annotations.
A comparison of the page as it appeared on July 17, 2025, with how it appeared on Aug. 6, 2025, as captured by the Internet Archive's Wayback Machine, shows that a large portion of Article 1 — the section of the Constitution about the powers of Congress — was removed between those two dates. The page also was archived on July 21, 22 and 24, but it appeared blank on all three of those dates.
The missing portion started about two-thirds of the way through Article 1, Section 8, beginning with the line giving Congress the authority to provide and maintain a navy. After that line, all the remaining sections of Article 1 were missing, which includes Section 9 and Section 10. No other sections of the Constitution were missing from the website at the time people posted about the missing portion.
Section 9 lists several things Congress is not allowed to do. This includes suspending the writ of habeas corpus, which protects people from being detained without reason, and granting titles of nobility. Section 10 lists things individual states are not allowed to do.
In a post to X (archived) on Aug. 6, 2025, the Library of Congress explained that it was aware some sections of Article 1 were missing from the Constitution's text on its site. It said this was "due to a coding error" and that it expected the issue to be resolved soon. There was also a disclaimer at the top of the website on Aug. 6, 2025, that read, "The Constitution Annotated website is currently experiencing data issues. We are working to resolve this issue and regret the inconvenience."
The Library of Congress did not respond to a Snopes request for more information on why that portion of the Constitution was missing from on the website. However, the full text of the Constitution is also available on the National Archives' website. That version of the text was not missing any sections from the Constitution on Aug. 6, 2025.
The National Constitution Center, a nonprofit organization not part of the U.S. federal government, also has the full text of the Constitution available.
