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It can also describe improving society by repealing bad laws, so presumably no. Reform does not equal writing new laws.
by repolfx 8y ago
It can also describe improving society by repealing bad laws, so presumably no. Reform does not equal writing new laws.
- ben_w 8y agoI had thought all repeals were also laws? The Wikipedia page says this of the USA, but is more ambiguous about my own country (UK, for now).
- repolfx 8y agoNo. You can't delete a law by making a law, that's obviously a contradiction. All repeals are acts of Parliament. However, Acts are essentially diffs to the existing body of law. If you read one you'll see they're full of "insert paragraph X after paragraph Y" type language. An act that repealed a law would just be an act that stated such-and-such a paragraph in the law was to be erased.