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No law gets repealed. They'll just pass a new law that changes the previous one. It's sort of like CSS for Congress... cascading legislature...


Worse, it's like diffs for congress without any version control:

"Title Blah Section BlahdyBlah(c)(4) shall be amended as follows: by striking 'shall not' and replacing it with 'may, phase of the moon permitting', and by striking 'foobars' and replacing it with 'all foobars, foreign and domestic, and any bazes and quuxes appertaining thereto'."

The language of the Constitution and its amendments is wonderfully tacit and accessible. Why can't statute law be so? Oh, right, because then it would obviate many uses for lawyers. Can't have that...




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