US Federal law works just like this but with an awful manual process that is screaming for a VCS: - Laws are passed by Congress and signed by the President. -

US Federal law works just like this but with an awful manual process that is screaming for a VCS: - Laws are passed by Congress and signed by the President. - The actual formal text of the law is printed in the “US Statues at Large”. Think of this like a commit log— it’s written as a series of add/modify/remove operations to the United States Code (USC), which represents the “master” branch of the repo; our current laws. - Sometimes the add/edit/remove operations have implications in many parts of the code. There is a manually-intensive process that actually determines which parts of the USC must be modified and how. This is like code review on a PR. - Periodically, after many laws are passed and many mods to the USC, it is “republished” (tag/release). Why we couldn’t do this with our laws is beyond me. Institutional inertia I suppose.