>Moreover, most countries have an "append-only" approach to legislation, where the original document doesn't get removed, but overridden by the new. One of it'

>Moreover, most countries have an "append-only" approach to legislation, where the original document doesn't get removed, but overridden by the new. One of it's biggest flaws, actually. Completely understandable, of course, they were working on paper... weren't any reasonable alternatives. >Look at the UK's Hansard[0] as an example. Every word spoken in Parliament leading up to legislation being introduced is tracked and published. Those conversations eventually turn into Bills on the Parliament site[1], and eventually those bills turn into legislation I'm ignorant of how things work in the UK's Parliament. But somehow this all seems doubtful. In the US, legislation isn't drafted in such a manner at all.