I appreciate your detailed response, and am fascinated by the complexity of legal systems around the world. I can reveal that I'm from Australia and our legal s

I appreciate your detailed response, and am fascinated by the complexity of legal systems around the world. I can reveal that I'm from Australia and our legal system seems to be good, but there's so much legislation to sift through to find something! One thing in common with all countries legal systems is that they are extremely complex, and no single person has an understanding of the entire system. It's also apparent that laws only become more complicated as different amendments account for more different situations. I think a good analogy for a legal-system is a software-system, here are some similarities: - Both begin as simple systems and become more sophisticated to account for more conditions. - Both use a language of logic to determine how things happen. - Both usually only add more code, not delete old code. There are many subtleties in Law, but in essence it's just a set of rules (albeit complex) which a society has to live by. The system I'm proposing would not be simple, and all-encompassing, but it should be easy to query: - Laws/regulations - Related precedence (cases, trials) - History of changes Maybe it could simply be a CMS which links to legitimate government websites. I just thought it could be made simpler to digest for citizens (not lawyers) with software...