If you plan to follow along with your own copy during
Thursday’s House floor reading of the U.S.
Constitution, you might notice that some members
reading aloud are skipping parts of the original
document.
Instead of reading the Constitution in its entirety,
House members will read an “amended version” that
only includes the sections and amendments that
were not changed at a later date. The decision in part
will allow members to avoid reading less pleasant
sections, like the clause in Article 1, Section 2, which
counted black slaves as three-fifths of a person.
“We’re reading the amended version with all
amendments that are currently part of the
Constitution, ” said Kathryn Rexrode, a spokesman for
Virginia Republican Rep. Bob Goodlatte, who
spearheaded the reading. “It will not include any
amendments that were in the original but later
amended. ”
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