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Legal & transparency

What Politeia is and is not, how official texts are reproduced, how our lists are ordered and what we store about you.

Last reviewed October 3, 2026. This page explains our practice; it is not legal advice.

In short

  • Politeia is an independent research tool. It is not legal advice and not a substitute for a lawyer.
  • Politeia is not an official publisher. Every law and proposal is a reproduction of an official source, which is always linked and always governs.
  • Politeia does not support or oppose any proposal, law, party or legislator.
  • AI output is always labelled and never stands in for the official text.
  • Every ranked list says how it is ordered.

Who we are, and who we are not

Politeia is an independent project. It is not affiliated with, funded by or speaking for any government, parliament, court, political party or campaign. A country, chamber or publisher appearing here does not mean it endorses Politeia.

Nothing on Politeia is legal advice. Laws change, sources lag and our processing can introduce errors. For a decision that matters, read the official text and consult a qualified professional.

Official texts are reproductions

Politeia publishes sourced reproductions of official documents, never an official law. Each law and proposal page links to the publisher's own copy and records when we retrieved it, with a hash of the exact bytes we received, so anyone can check our copy against theirs.

We convert every source into one shared reading format: articles, headings and citation anchors. That conversion can miss a boundary or misread a table. Where our copy and the publisher's differ, the official source governs. A compilation its publisher labels informational stays labelled that way here.

Report a discrepancy with the correction button on the record. A correction needs a citation.

Three kinds of content

Everything you read on Politeia is one of these three, and the page says which.

Official source

Text, metadata and status published by a government or parliament. Shown with its publisher, retrieval date and a link to the original.

Politeia representation

Our structured rendering of the official text: article numbers, headings, anchors, comparisons and counts. Deterministic and versioned, but ours, not the publisher's.

AI output

Summaries, machine translations, topic labels and comparison verdicts written by an AI model. Always labelled, traceable to the inputs it was given, and never a legal source.

Sources and reuse

Official does not automatically mean free to reuse. Most of the countries we cover exclude legislation from copyright; others license it openly. This table is our understanding of each publisher's terms, reviewed as sources change.

  • Brazil

    Câmara dos Deputados · Senado Federal (LexML)

    Not protected by copyright

    Lei 9.610/1998, art. 8, IV

    Link to the source; nothing of ours presented as the publisher's.

  • Canada

    Justice Laws Website (Department of Justice) · Parliament of Canada (LEGISinfo)

    Reproduction permitted by order

    Reproduction of Federal Law Order, SI/97-5

    Due diligence on accuracy; never presented as the official version.

    Bills and debates: the Parliament's own reuse terms are under review.

  • Chile

    BCN LeyChile · Cámara de Diputadas y Diputados · Senado de Chile

    Open legislative data

    Congreso Nacional, datos abiertos

    Link to the source; nothing of ours presented as the publisher's.

    Consolidated law texts: the publisher's terms are under review.

  • Germany

    Gesetze im Internet / Rechtsinformationen des Bundes (BMJ) · Deutscher Bundestag (DIP)

    Not protected by copyright

    UrhG § 5

    Link to the source; nothing of ours presented as the publisher's.

  • Ireland

    Irish Statute Book · Houses of the Oireachtas

    Open licence

    Oireachtas PSI licence (CC BY 4.0)

    Attribution, the licence, and a notice that our copy is not the official text.

  • Mexico

    Cámara de Diputados · Diario Oficial de la Federación · Sistema de Información Legislativa (SEGOB)

    Not protected by copyright

    LFDA, art. 14, fr. VIII

    Link to the source; nothing of ours presented as the publisher's.

  • Spain

    Boletín Oficial del Estado · Congreso de los Diputados

    Not protected by copyright

    TRLPI, art. 13

    Link to the source; nothing of ours presented as the publisher's.

  • Switzerland

    Fedlex (Federal Chancellery) · Swiss Parliament

    Not protected by copyright

    URG / LDA, art. 5

    Link to the source; nothing of ours presented as the publisher's.

  • United Kingdom

    legislation.gov.uk (The National Archives) · UK Parliament

    Open licence

    Open Government Licence v3.0 · Open Parliament Licence

    Attribution to the publisher and its licence.

  • United States

    GovInfo (Government Publishing Office) · Congress.gov (Library of Congress)

    Not protected by copyright

    17 U.S.C. § 105

    Link to the source; nothing of ours presented as the publisher's.

A government document can contain material the government does not own, such as photographs, maps, private technical standards or commissioned studies. Publishing it does not transfer those rights. If you hold rights in something reproduced here, tell us through the feedback button and we will review it.

Country names and codes on Politeia are our own labels. We do not reproduce government crests, seals or logos, and nothing here implies that a government endorses Politeia.

No endorsements

  • Politeia does not support or oppose any proposal, law, party or legislator, and its own text never recommends one.
  • Support and Oppose votes are readers' views. They are not a poll, not a representative sample and not Politeia's position.
  • Following a legislator or a bill is a way to get updates, not a sign of agreement.
  • A verified badge confirms a legislator's identity, not what they believe or whether they are right.
  • Party identity never influences any ranking. Party and country figures are counts of official records.
  • An evidence grade describes the quality of a source, not whether a policy is desirable. Controversy is not low confidence.

How our lists are ordered

Every list that puts one record above another says why, here and behind the ? beside its title.

Legislators to watch (home page)

A recency-weighted count of the bills each legislator filed, taken from official sponsorship records. A bill filed this week counts far more than one filed months ago (its weight halves every 21 days), and co-signing counts about a third of filing. Countries take turns; a party gets a second place in a country only after every other party there had one; and the draw rotates daily, so busier legislators appear more often and everyone in the pool appears sometimes. Scores come from official records only, never from views, follows or votes.

The Floor (home page)

Most supported orders bills by readers' Support votes minus Oppose votes, newest first on ties. It shows what signed-in readers clicked: it is not a poll and represents no population. Just filed orders by filing date. Furthest along orders by parliamentary stage.

Where the debate is (home page)

For each topic, the number of laws in force set against the number of open proposals, on one scale. Both are counts of official records. A long proposals bar means legislators are still filing, not that the topic matters more.

News attention

Trending legislation is ordered by recent acceleration in news coverage, and Most covered by coverage volume, both counted over a curated list of news publishers. They measure media attention, not importance or merit.

Compare

Counterparts in other countries are found by similarity between the sections of each law. Difference verdicts are written by an AI model, labelled as such, and kept only when the cited texts support them. A weak match is named as one.

Community contributions

Readers can post evidence, arguments, questions and corrections. A contribution is its author's view, not Politeia's, and evidence or a correction needs a cited source before it can be posted. Moderators remove spam, abuse and impersonation, and every moderation action is recorded.

By posting, you confirm you have the right to share what you post. Do not post anyone's personal information.

Your data

We keep what is needed to run your account, and nothing to sell.

  • Account: your email address, handle and password (stored only as a one-way hash). Your email is used for sign-in, password reset and verification, and is never shown publicly.
  • Contributions: posts you publish are public under your handle. Follows and saved items are not shown on any public page.
  • Votes: a Support or Oppose vote on a bill records a political opinion. We keep it with your account so you can change or remove it (press it again), and show it to others only as totals.
  • Browser: a cookie keeps your language, and your browser's local storage keeps your sign-in session and home country. There is no advertising and no third-party tracking.
  • Errors: when a page fails, we record the error and the page address so we can fix it.

To see, correct or delete what we hold about you, write to us through the feedback button on any page.

No warranty

Politeia is in beta and provided as is. We work to keep it accurate and current, but coverage has gaps, sources change without notice and processing can fail. A gap is shown as a gap: a missing record is not proof that no law exists.

Corrections and questions

Use the correction button on a record to report an error in it, and the feedback button on any page for anything else, including questions about this page and requests from rights holders.

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