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A history of edits to the US Constitution as it has been amended. Written in markdown to match original formatting.

15 mentions on Hacker News by 15 people: 3 stories, 12 comments · first 2019-10-23 · latest 2025-03-25

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  1. See also the US Constitution in GitHub: https://github.com/JesseKPhillips/USA-Constitution
    comment by LorenDB · 2025-03-25 · in German parliament votes as a Git contribution graph
  2. …on documents historically. Has there been any progress on general agreement on how to do this? Ref: https://github.com/JesseKPhillips/USA-Constitution?tab=readm...
    comment by escapecharacter · 2024-08-03 · in Back dating Git commits based on file modification dates
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    Historical Edits of the USA Constitution
    story by mooreds · 2022-09-08 · 0 comments
  4. You're in luck, someone recreated the constitution in git with the history of edits https://github.com/jessekphillips/usa-constitution Edit: just noticed the dates aren't accurate, but still interesting and the authors are accurate
    comment by e_i_pi_2 · 2022-09-08 · in Congress.gov API
  5. …represented the US constitution in a Git repository couldn't use the actual dates it wanted to. https://github.com/JesseKPhillips/USA-Constitution#who-made-...
    comment by rgoulter · 2022-02-14 · in The Go language's first commit (1972)
  6. Not specifically the government, but there is a github[0] for amendments to the Constitution. [0] https://github.com/JesseKPhillips/USA-Constitution
    comment by neapolisbeach · 2021-01-27 · in Ask HN: Is there a changelog equivalent for the U.S. government?
  7. There is a repo for the USA-Constitution: https://github.com/JesseKPhillips/USA-Constitution I am not sure if there are any for the states.
    comment by mishraprince · 2021-01-24 · in All 104 amendments to the Constitution of India as Git commits
  8. I always love these sort of things. Here's the same for the US constitution: https://github.com/JesseKPhillips/USA-Constitution As a bonus, this one attempted to backdate the commits in a cyphered way (git dates are unix timestamps so the…
    comment by frob · 2021-01-24 · in All 104 amendments to the Constitution of India as Git commits
  9. Check out this: https://github.com/JesseKPhillips/USA-Constitution It's not an official source, but they added the history with correct dates etc. Very cool concept! Our student organisation (for CS students) also has our organisation…
    comment by orhanhh · 2020-02-09 · in Frankenstein Veto
  10. …reasonable he would not be allowed to quarter his troops in peoples homes. Take a look at this one https://github.com/JesseKPhillips/USA-Constitution/commit/0c...
    comment by he_the_great · 2019-10-27 · in US Constitution – A Git repo with history of edits
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    Git Commits to the U.S. Constitution
    story by youlweb · 2019-10-24 · 1 comment
  12. I've got an issue with this one about muskets. https://github.com/JesseKPhillips/USA-Constitution/issues/5
    comment by RocketSyntax · 2019-10-23 · in US Constitution – A Git repo with history of edits
  13. …of them like this, and it doesn't always work well here. Most glaringly, there is the part in https://github.com/JesseKPhillips/USA-Constitution/commit/7f... in the article talking about the President's powers, saying "The President shall…
    comment by tom_mellior · 2019-10-23 · in US Constitution – A Git repo with history of edits
  14. …to the original authors: Amendment XXVII Author: James Madison Date: May 7 15:00:00 1999 -0400 https://github.com/JesseKPhillips/USA-Constitution/commit/3c... I wish the commits were dated with the changes' original dates. Perhaps they and…
    comment by cpeterso · 2019-10-23 · in US Constitution – A Git repo with history of edits
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    US Constitution – A Git repo with history of edits
    story by styfle · 2019-10-23 · 378 comments