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This is such a great way of making access to the law more open and welcoming, which is a great thing to me! I haven't been able to check yet, but does anyone k
by Klathmon 8y ago
This is such a great way of making access to the law more open and welcoming, which is a great thing to me!
I haven't been able to check yet, but does anyone know if you are allowed to use this process to propose new laws or clarifications of laws more substantial than simple typo fixes?
Sure, you aren't going to have non-lawyers crafting legislation, but could this be used to bring up clarifications that could impact rulings or increase/decrease scope of current laws or something similar? (I'm not a lawyer, so I don't know what are big and what are small changes here)
Imagine if proposed laws could be commented on, have changes offered, debated, and ultimately decided on in an open fashion like this! With a public "audit trail" of sorts showing the history of changes the law went through.
I know this is optimistic, but I wholeheartedly believe that more openness and more people involved will ultimately lead to better laws.
- iamdave 8y agoI haven't been able to check yet, but does anyone know if you are allowed to use this process to propose new laws or clarifications of laws more substantial than simple typo fixes? "You" as in you, a citizen off the street proposing a new law? Unlikely. You could use it to form the basis for a ballot initiative, I would think?