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Serious question: is there any publicly available place I can go and simply read all the laws? Obviously knowing the letter of the law won't let me know how to
by skizm 7y ago
Serious question: is there any publicly available place I can go and simply read all the laws? Obviously knowing the letter of the law won't let me know how to apply it in all situations, but I literally have no idea how to discover what laws I'm supposed to follow, besides asking a lawyer.
- quanticle 7y agoThe Cornell Law College has the entire US Code published on its website: https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text
- skizm 7y agoNeat, thanks! Curious though, where does Cornell get the source material / wording from? When something changes, how are they informed? Does the government keep a master copy somewhere?
- bjourne 7y agoThey subscribe to the US government's gazette: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Federal_Register https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Federal_Register Each US state also has a corresponding gazette.
- skizm 7y agoCool, thanks!
- ajdlinux 7y agoYou can see the government's version of the US Code at https://uscode.house.gov/ https://uscode.house.gov/. The Cornell version is more browsable. The Office of the Law Revision Counsel is responsible for taking each individual Act of Congress and updating the USC appropriately.
- astonex 7y agoIn the UK we have http://www.legislation.gov.uk http://www.legislation.gov.uk