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Legislative Archeology - what am I missing ?
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Jon Kukla <[log in to unmask]>
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Sun, 16 Jun 2019 12:00:04 -0400
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Reading Jeff Shapiro's column this morning* about Governor Northam's plans
for a commission to unearth lingering remnants of Jim Crow in the
Commonwealth's legal code, I'm wondering about the periodic revisals of
Virginia's legal code that date back to the colonial era.
In short, my question is simple: Is it possible for archaic legislation to
remain in force after the General Assembly does one of these wholesale
revisions of the code?
Or, to put it another way, when the Assembly re-writes the code, does that
terminate laws that are not reenacted?

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Jon Kukla                            www.jonkukla.com

* https://www.richmond.com/news/virginia/government-politics/jeff-schapiro/
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