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by harvey9 456 days ago
Might work in some systems but England has Case Law stacked on top of statutes. That's tricky to turn back into code.
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Case law is basically monkey-patching (or wrapping / decorating). It’s part of the running law but does not modify the law itself in—source.
I had thought the goal here was something more than just 'track changes', which legislators could do in Word