Legalize

Legalize is a web-based reference site for legislation presented as code. Its stated aim is to make laws transparent, trackable, and accessible, and it describes itself with the phrase open legislation.

The site presents every law as a Markdown file and every reform as a Git commit. In the page shown, an article from a constitutional reform is displayed with the reform note that 2024-02-17 Constitutional reform replaced one term with another. It also highlights browsing by country and lists counts for laws, reforms, and articles tracked across 31 countries. The page includes a REST API with JSON endpoints for laws, reforms, diffs, and search, and it mentions GitHub as a way to clone the project and use git log, git diff, and git blame.

Legalize is aimed at builders, who are explicitly invited to use the API and the repository tools to build something new. The interface is available in English, Español, Français, Deutsch, Svenska, Português, Lietuvių, Latviešu, Polski, Nederlands, Italiano, Eesti, Ελληνικά, Українська, and Suomi, and it supports browsing legislation from countries including Andorra, España, France, Sverige, Österreich, Deutschland, Eesti, Chile, Lietuva, Portugal, Uruguay, Latvija, Polska, Ελλάδα, Česká republika, Belgique, Norge, Ireland, Argentina, Italia, United States, Україна, Nederland, Danmark, Schweiz, Liechtenstein, Luxembourg, Suomi, European Union, Slovensko, United Kingdom, and Colombia. The site also states that it is an automated reproduction of official sources and that it is not official or verified legal text.

The page shows counts of 659,758 laws tracked, 749,315 reforms tracked, and 1,109,979 articles tracked. It also includes the line “Support this project,” but no pricing information is stated on the page itself.