# JesseKPhillips/USA-Constitution

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

Repository: https://github.com/JesseKPhillips/USA-Constitution
Canonical: https://ross.abutalabs.com/products/usa-constitution
License Family: other
Last push: 2021-01-02T21:43:27+00:00

## Health v2 (maintenance only)
Score: 32/100 (v2, computed 2026-09-03T02:20:16.233290+00:00)
- activity 0, release rhythm 35, longevity 100
- inputs: {"age_days": 3579, "days_push": 2069, "days_rel": null, "gap_med": null, "n_releases_24m": 0}
- flags: no_releases, no_license
- formula: round(0.45*activity + 0.35*rhythm + 0.20*longevity); archived -> min(score, 10)

## Adoption (not part of the score)
Stars 2180, forks 114 (observed 2026-08-28T04:06:23.170389+00:00)

## What it is
A Git repository that models the US Constitution's amendments as a history of edits, showing how the document evolved from its original text. Each amendment is represented as a commit with markdown files matching the original document's formatting.

## Use cases
- see what the constitution looked like after each amendment
- track the history of changes to the US Constitution
- study how amendments modified the original document
- use git history to explore legal document evolution
- find who authored each constitutional amendment
- read the constitution with amendments applied inline

## When to choose
- you want a version-controlled, diff-friendly view of constitutional changes
- you're teaching or learning how amendments altered the founding document
- you need markdown source text of the constitution including amendments

## When to avoid
- you need an authoritative legal reference for court or legal work
- you want scholarly annotations or commentary on constitutional law
- you need the full text of amendment proposals that were never ratified

## Facets
- artifact type: dataset
- maturity: maintenance
- function: documentation, markdown, version-control
- domain: documentation, education, legal
- platform: cross-platform
- tags: us-constitution, git-history, amendments, educational-resource, legal-history, history

## Member repositories
- JesseKPhillips/USA-Constitution (main) score 32

## Provenance
- Observed fields: from GitHub, fetched 2026-08-28T04:06:23.170389+00:00.
- Health v2: computed from the inputs above; adoption is never an input.
- Inferred fields (summary, facets, guidance): AI-extracted, prompt v1, taxonomy v1, on 2026-08-30T02:48:42.763819+00:00, confidence not recorded.
  - readme: https://github.com/JesseKPhillips/USA-Constitution (fetched 2026-08-28T04:06:23.170389+00:00, sha 37905c78b45a)
- Data as of 2026-08-30T08:39:29.467469+00:00.