[ben_w]

I had to google “progressivism”. Improving society by reform, apparently. Isn’t that a description of everyone who wants to write any laws at all?

[repolfx]

It can also describe improving society by repealing bad laws, so presumably no. Reform does not equal writing new laws.

[ben_w]

I had thought all repeals were also laws? The Wikipedia page says this of the USA, but is more ambiguous about my own country (UK, for now).

[repolfx]

No. You can't delete a law by making a law, that's obviously a contradiction.

All repeals are acts of Parliament. However, Acts are essentially diffs to the existing body of law. If you read one you'll see they're full of "insert paragraph X after paragraph Y" type language. An act that repealed a law would just be an act that stated such-and-such a paragraph in the law was to be erased.