Re:US Constitution – A Git repo with history of edits
by C1sc0cat on Thursday October 24, 2019 @12:48PM
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Exactly parliamentary procedure was using content control well before computers where invented read Citrine or Roberts Rules.
But Executive's do get up to "naughty shit!" as a Uk Party Whip said to me once in a bar.
- 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.