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This repo is a prototype testing a theory, not yet a mirror the public relies on. The immutability disciplines (never-overwrite, never-rewrite, raw-first-in-repo) are reframed as the v1.0 target, not day-3 law — a mirror that force-pushes while preaching immutability would betray its own founding principle. Until v1: history is malleable and raw source snapshots live off-repo on the depot (.gitignore'd), with only the product (records) and provenance (manifests + SHA-256) committed. The 147MB of already-tracked raw zips are dropped from HEAD (git rm --cached, a forward delete — the bytes stay on the depot). Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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Legal Corpus
Republic OS mirrors law as deterministic terrain before it interprets law as intelligence.
The legal pipeline is deliberately mechanical:
official source -> raw snapshot -> normalized legal tree -> manifest -> checksums -> git diff
The legal corpus is the complete United States Code — every section of all 53 titles that carry content (Title 53 is reserved and empty), 59,740 records, from the Office of the Law Revision Counsel USLM XML at release point 119-100 (current through Public Law 119-100). One source, one edition, end to end.
Pre-v1 note: the raw
.zip/.xmlsnapshots live off-repo on the depot, not in git — only the manifests and checksums (which anchor them by SHA-256) are committed. The "raw-first, in-repo" discipline turns on at v1.0. See the README.
Layout
data/legal/raw/us/code/ (off-repo pre-v1; hashes committed below)
title-NN/
xml_uscNN@119-100.zip
uscNN.xml
data/legal/manifests/
us-code-title-NN-119-100.json
data/legal/checksums/
us-code-title-NN-119-100.sha256
legal/us/code/
title-NN/
chapter-101/
section-10101.md
The raw ZIP is the provenance anchor. The generated Markdown is the readable legal tree. The manifest records source hashes, output hashes, release metadata, and the section list.
Discipline
Legal corpus ingestion does not summarize, classify authority, infer relationships, or answer legal questions. Later layers can extract citations, definitions, amendments, and authority links from this base. The base itself is just a reproducible mirror.
Rebuild
make legal-us-code
make validate
The success condition is that rebuilding from the same pinned source produces the same normalized legal files and checksums.