"Legislation comes in the form of bills which are essentially patches to the existing legal code....
"Legislation comes in the form of bills which are essentially patches to the existing legal code. Many different versions of a patch may float around to be debated, discussed, amended, etc., before a final version is applied to the "trunk". The process is extremely similar to how developers manage software changes, particularly in the open source world."
uscode
The United States Code. Contribute to uscode development by creating an account on GitHub.
Syndicated 2012-05-25 14:22:41 from Plus Public Activity Feed for David Barksdale