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Re:Ask HN: If you could 'reinvent' anything what would it be? by noblethrasher on Monday July 27, 2009 @03:38AM (#725555)
The U.S. Constitution. I'd explicitly list the underlying first principles for everything.

For example:

1. The law of noncontradiction - something can't be A and not A

2. Treat like things the same and different things differently

Those principles inform the 4th, 5th and 6th amendments.

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