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On the US Constitution, just before Article 1 Section 7, is this a line that was rubbed out? If so, why and what did it originally say? (media.piefed.world)
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[–] charonn0@startrek.website 11 points 6 days ago

After he finished, [official scribe Jacob] Shallus had to deal with several mistakes that he had made during that rushed weekend of exacting labor. [...] But he also used a penknife to scrape away an entire line of text near the bottom of page one, leaving behind a roughed-up band that now appears gray from grime.

https://www.archives.gov/publications/prologue/2012/fall/const-errors.html

So it would seem to have been a transcription error that was scraped off.