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Congress should write laws which are like open source software.

Branches.. revisions.. being ran through a legal interpreter to ensure there are no logical errors.

There is a movement for plain english bills, which the average user(citizen) could read. I'm for that too.



Can you imagine a parser from the near future?

SB 1101

Legislation failed self consistency checks against:

HB 1203, SB 32

Renders sections in statute redundant:

33.401, section A 31.22, section D

Renders sections in statute moot:

31.101, all sections. 32.4, section B

Gaps in enforcement found (loop holes)

SB 1101 Section A, has incomplete coverage of peoples...


Just push it anyways, SB 32 is always flaky…


Sections from other statutes that would make obeying this statute punishable:

HB 7075


Exactly!


> Branches.. revisions..

That's the normal law creation workflow (nearly everywhere, for a century or so already). They don't use automated tools, but the features are there.


How would that work with Common Law?

Life isn't software engineering where anyone can just contribute. I literally had a conversation today with someone that thought Common Law was "Christian Law" and then called me Dumb when I explained where that didn't really make any sense.


How does common law logically function in the real world?

Only when people know enough to enforce it?

That's kind of how the law works in all scenarios.

There are so many skeletons in the closets, however most are unenforceable because there is more reasonable precedent in the other direction.

If nothing else, I'd like to see a lot of law refactored into human readable language while keeping its meaning.




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