Comment by taeric

This is silly, though? Rules and legislation is also usually layered in such a way that other rules can supercede.

Such that, if your model of how rules and regulations work is that they are all active at all times.... I have really bad news for you. For fun, consider that there is still the 18th amendment to the US constitution. There is just also now the 21st amendment to go with it. And at no point did we have to redefine words for that trick.