ZuLuuuuuu 5 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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jampekka 5 days ago

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.

47282847 5 days ago

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.

zesterer 5 days ago

I don't know, something tells me that lawmaking-by-git is somehow less accessible to the 'regular citizen'.

monsieurbanana 5 days ago

Slapping a UI on top of that seems easy