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<h1 class="project-name">The publicdocs project</h1>
<h2 class="project-tagline">An educational initiative to better understand the public documents that form the foundation of our society</h2>
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<p>Our goal is to archive, process, and understand the documents, including laws and judicial opinions, that provide the framework for our society. We especially care about archiving versions of these documents in an easy to process format (such as text or Markdown) and with medium-neutral cross-references between them. We're starting with the United States.</p>
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<p><strong><em>All use of this project is subject to the <a href="https://publicdocs.github.io/notice/NOTICE.txt">NOTICE</a>. This content may be inaccurate or incomplete, should not be used for official purposes, and is not legal advice. Not affiliated with any government agency. See NOTICE for further disclaimers.</em></strong></p>
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<a id="the-data" class="anchor" href="#the-data" aria-hidden="true"><span aria-hidden="true" class="octicon octicon-link"></span></a>The data</h1>
<p>We've collected some of the important documents that govern our society from the U.S. government. We host processed, marked-up, transformed, etc. versions of these documents - they are unofficial and may be inaccurate and incomplete; this is a work in-progress. Our data include:</p>
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<a id="history-of-the-us-code---view-" class="anchor" href="#history-of-the-us-code---view-" aria-hidden="true"><span aria-hidden="true" class="octicon octicon-link"></span></a>History of the U.S. Code - <a href="https://github.com/publicdocs/uscode">view »</a>
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<p>We've processed each 'release point' (an update to the U.S. code created after every few Public Laws passed by Congress) made by the U.S. House of Representatives OLRC and turned it into a text-like Git repository so you can see how public law has changed over time with Git diff 'red-lines'. We currently cover over 75 iterations of the law from mid-2013 to the present and are working on getting older data. For example:</p>
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<li>How P.L. 113-227 <a href="https://github.com/publicdocs/uscode/commit/334f65d8de435fb25b5aef0120028e3a3eb69695?short_path=7c48236#diff-7c48236bbc9ca7b182a54055ac202bdd">affected 35 U.S.C. § 2</a>
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<li>How P.L. 113-81 <a href="https://github.com/publicdocs/uscode/commit/2386d24b714d17231b76cc728d782899f23b4215?short_path=23ac9dd#diff-23ac9dd5bea85e8d95de58feed3b4f13">affected 18 U.S.C. § 2320</a>
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<li>The <a href="https://github.com/publicdocs/uscode/tree/t-v301-0071-rp-114-153">state of the U.S. Code at P.L. 114-153</a>
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<a id="us-supreme-court-opinions" class="anchor" href="#us-supreme-court-opinions" aria-hidden="true"><span aria-hidden="true" class="octicon octicon-link"></span></a>U.S. Supreme Court Opinions</h2>
<p>We have:</p>
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<a href="https://github.com/publicdocs/us-scotus-slips">2003 through 2015 slip and misc. opinions</a> and</li>
<li><a href="https://github.com/publicdocs/us-scotus-flite">1937 through 1975 FLITE opinions</a></li>
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<a id="reference-resolution---view-" class="anchor" href="#reference-resolution---view-" aria-hidden="true"><span aria-hidden="true" class="octicon octicon-link"></span></a>Reference Resolution - <a href="https://github.com/publicdocs/go">view »</a>
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<p>Documents often contain cross-references to others using citations (such as legal citations) instead of using modern URLs. We're trying to resolve those to both our documents and government websites in a standard way, for example using <a href="https://github.com/usgpo/uslm">USLM</a> references, such as:</p>
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<li><a href="https://publicdocs.github.io/go/links?ns=uslm&ref=/us/usc/t2/s5301">/us/usc/t2/s3 - 2 U.S.C. § 5301</a></li>
<li><a href="https://publicdocs.github.io/go/links?ns=uslm&ref=/us/pl/105/225">/us/pl/105/225 - P.L. 105-225</a></li>
<li><a href="https://publicdocs.github.io/go/links?ns=uslm&ref=/us/stat/120/205">/us/stat/120/205 - 120 Stat. 205 <em>aka</em> USA PATRIOT Act update</a></li>
<li><a href="https://publicdocs.github.io/go/links?ns=uslm&ref=/us/stat/1/1">/us/stat/1/1 - 1 Stat. 1 <em>aka</em> the Declaration of Independence</a></li>
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<p>We hope to someday host and cross-reference all of these types of documents our-selves, but until then links to various government websites are also provided.</p>
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<a id="us-constitution---view-" class="anchor" href="#us-constitution---view-" aria-hidden="true"><span aria-hidden="true" class="octicon octicon-link"></span></a>U.S. Constitution - <a href="https://github.com/publicdocs/usconstitution">view »</a>
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<p>In handy <a href="https://github.com/publicdocs/usconstitution/blob/master/assets/md/constitution.md">Markdown</a> format!</p>
<p>You can find a full list of our data projects at our <a href="https://github.com/publicdocs">GitHub organization page</a>.</p>
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<a id="the-software" class="anchor" href="#the-software" aria-hidden="true"><span aria-hidden="true" class="octicon octicon-link"></span></a>The software</h1>
<p>Generally, we scrape, transform, and mark-up the documents using software developed and hosted on our <a href="https://github.com/publicdocs-platform">publicdocs-platform</a> repository.</p>
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<a id="the-people" class="anchor" href="#the-people" aria-hidden="true"><span aria-hidden="true" class="octicon octicon-link"></span></a>The people</h1>
<p>This software and project is currently being developed by <a href="https://github.com/advayDev1" class="user-mention">@advayDev1</a>.</p>
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<p>Copyright © 2016-2018 Advay Mengle and the authors of the <a href="https://github.com/publicdocs">https://github.com/publicdocs</a> project. No claim made to original US government works. All use of this project is subject to the <a href="https://publicdocs.github.io/notice/NOTICE.txt">NOTICE</a>. This content may be inaccurate or incomplete and should not be used for official purposes.</p>
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