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55 lines
1.3 KiB
Markdown
# Legal Corpus
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Republic OS mirrors law as deterministic terrain before it interprets law as intelligence.
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The legal pipeline is deliberately mechanical:
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```text
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official source -> raw snapshot -> normalized legal tree -> manifest -> checksums -> git diff
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```
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The first legal corpus is a seed import of the United States Code, Title 52,
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Voting and Elections, from the Office of the Law Revision Counsel XML release
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point current through Public Law 119-100.
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## Layout
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```text
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data/legal/raw/us/code/
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title-52/
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xml_usc52@119-100.zip
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usc52.xml
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data/legal/manifests/
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us-code-title-52-119-100.json
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data/legal/checksums/
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us-code-title-52-119-100.sha256
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legal/us/code/
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title-52/
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chapter-101/
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section-10101.md
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```
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The raw ZIP is the provenance anchor. The generated Markdown is the readable
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legal tree. The manifest records source hashes, output hashes, release metadata,
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and the section list.
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## Discipline
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Legal corpus ingestion does not summarize, classify authority, infer
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relationships, or answer legal questions. Later layers can extract citations,
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definitions, amendments, and authority links from this base. The base itself is
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just a reproducible mirror.
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## Rebuild
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```bash
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make legal-us-code
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make validate
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```
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The success condition is that rebuilding from the same pinned source produces
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the same normalized legal files and checksums.
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