The law is intentionally interlocking. Read it that way.
Most legal-research tools are sold to professionals already fluent in the vocabulary. Marginalia is built for the citizen-researcher: someone who suspects a rule applies to them and wants to read it for themselves, in context, exactly as written.
The connections between statutes, regulations, agency manuals, and the commercial code are not always made explicit — that opacity is part of how the system works. We index the primary sources, surface the cross-references, and put the plain-English summary side-by-side with the original text so you can always verify.
Marginalia is not legal advice. It is a research aid. Use it the way a careful reader would use any reference work: to orient yourself, then to read the source.
Where this is going.
Marginalia today is six federal codebooks indexed together. Next is all 50 state codes, domain packs for the situations people actually search, a visible citation graph, alerts, and an honest research desk. The whitepaper lays it all out — and why $5/mo is the honest number to fund it.
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