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by ZuLuuuuuu 449 days ago
This kind of digitization is great.

I don't know if they are doing it, but I always thought that it should be easy for regular citizens to see the historical reasons why a law or regulation exists. Because there is sometimes a good reason why a regulation exists, but nobody knows it.

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Laws are usually passed with longer texts that explain why the law was passed. These are consulted by courts if there are issues in interpreting a law.
This is more important than readers may think as laws especially in civil law jurisdictions are meant to be applied based on intent, and not by the letter.
I don't know, something tells me that lawmaking-by-git is somehow less accessible to the 'regular citizen'.
Slapping a UI on top of that seems easy