D. N. Vercáriâ
Group: citizens
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(last post: March 15, 2008 - 16:51)
Citizen #26:
Dieter N Vercáriâ | > > > Here is a proposal for the future (or maybe I have missed that something like this exists already): I'd like to see that there are downloadable .pfd versions of the Constitution and the Federal code somewhere. This would possibly provide us with some error-resistant archive of former instances of our laws, for a situation in which we'd have to reconstruct the present online archives of our legal scripts.
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> > So you're volunteering then?
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> I should note that making a PDF copy of the Federal Code will have to not only fix all typos with reference to the historical record (for example, that missing half a sentence in the Elections Code 2.7 which makes the part about vacancies in the Chamber a nonsense), but include the three new laws that have been promulgated during the Fifth Chamber.
As far as I can see it, the Federal Code is split into sections, which always made it difficult to browse it with an average browser, and which will make it difficult to wrap it into one single PDF file at one swoop. Maybe in the long run the web page needs to be reorganized for making it more browser-friendly.
Anyway, beauty and the lack of typos wouldn't be what we are looking for... it's more about gaining snapshots of our collection of laws that can't be altered afterwards any more. The problem with constantly rewritten databases is that an incidental inaccuracy during an update could kind of rewrite our memories forever.
> Look, if time is easy over the weekend, I'll do it. Dieter should of course do it too, and then the Seneschál should decide whose version looks classiest. :-)
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> I should note that I made a PDF copy of the original 2005 Constitution, pre-amendments, so not a big issue to do that again.
It's good to have archives like that.
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