Think a change through before you propose it

On Solon anyone can propose a change to any law it holds: pick an article, write the words you think it should say, and Solon shows your change as a redline against the published text. Until now you did that alone. Whether the change was a good idea, what it would set in motion, and whether anyone had tried it before were questions you had to research yourself.

Now the proposal page has a second half: Think it through.

Ask about your own draft

The assistant reads your draft as it stands (each article you change, today's words and yours, and your reason), and answers what you ask about it. Ask in general and it covers, briefly:

• What it changes: the rule today and the rule after, in plain words.
• What would likely follow: the direct effects first, then the plausible indirect ones, and how sure each is.
• Who would gain and who would bear a cost: named as groups, without taking a side.
• Where something like it is already law: it searches the law of every place Solon holds for the same subject, and the web for studies, official evaluations and the experience of places that made a similar change.
• What is not known, and what evidence would settle it.
• If you ask, how the wording could be clearer.

Sources, not opinions

Every factual statement cites the provision or the page it comes from, and a claim with no source says so. The assistant takes no side on whether your change is good, and it never files anything: the proposal stays yours to word, to file and to argue for.

One engine

This is the same engine as Ask the law: it plans a search, reads the provisions, checks what it found, looks further when it has to, and writes the answer from the sources. It now knows every place Solon holds. A question about Estonia is searched in Estonian and one about Wyoming in English, the languages their law is written in, not in German.