USA-Constitution

See also the US Constitution in GitHub: https://github.com/JesseKPhillips/USA-Constitution

I had heard that git was incompatible with dates pre Unix (around 1970). This makes it hard if you want to use git as a format to show collaborate 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...

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

For the sake of interest, not quite any date. https://stackoverflow.com/questions/21787872/is-it-possible-... e.g. this repo which 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-...

Not specifically the government, but there is a github[0] for amendments to the Constitution. [0] https://github.com/JesseKPhillips/USA-Constitution

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.

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 author needed to get clever to do anything before t=0 in 1970).

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 statutes in git: https://github.com/abakus-ntnu/statutter

The Bill of Rights is more additional than modification. The president is the commander an chief of the military, it seems 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...

I've got an issue with this one about muskets. https://github.com/JesseKPhillips/USA-Constitution/issues/5

Are the amendments really meant to be inserted at unspecified points in the main text? I never thought 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 have Power to [...] He shall from time to time [...]" and the diff inserts "No soldier shall, in time of peace be quartered in any house, without the consent of the owner, nor in time of war, but in a manner to be prescribed by law." between these sentences. This doesn't work at all, not only because this amendment has nothing to do with the President's powers, but especially because the "He" starting the next sentence has nothing more to refer to. Of course this would be a lot more boring if the amendm

I love that the commits are attributed 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 GitHub's UI is just confused by pre-1970 epoch dates.