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I have a temporary dream (as in we'll see how long this lasts...) of building a database of legislation by state that can easily be queried.
I think a lot of people rely on the news to tell them how to interpret legislation when it's actually really easy to figure it out for yourself if you know where to look. And with the proliferation of AI, it should be even easier to know what legislation is without some political analyst with an agenda.
Anyway, the idea is to have all this available on one website that uses open source code for the underlying database.
...that's freakin' cool!
This could really be an amazing project! I’ll see what I can do!
I've also wondered if it's possible to somehow hook git into legislation. To track changes like how laws are amended and superseded and so on.
Law has a lot in common with software and is constantly being improved by a large number of people.
Added to the list ! That’s such a clever way of tracking law history !