This process pre-dates computing. And the law in general defers to precedent, history, and customs - that's part of what Common Law is. Eventually the legislat

This process pre-dates computing. And the law in general defers to precedent, history, and customs - that's part of what Common Law is. Eventually the legislative process will catch up and use something akin to version control. But that's just automating what is currently a manual process. And the bottleneck for making progress isn't the difficulty of updating the law - not by a long shot. FWIW some bills just say something like: 1. Strike 27 Section 2(g) (which is 100 paragraphs) 2. Insert the following under 27 Section 2(g) (followed by an entirely rewritten bit of law) Even all the sections, paragraphs, etc with the numbers, capital letters, lowercase letters, and so on are really just a manual form of hyperlinking and bookmarking so the code can have cross-references. That's also something that could be a lot easier to write, update, and read if we had a VCS for writing laws.