The codification happened hundreds of years ago, though.
But you could do it too! The Congressional Record is a thing, and it publishes all the acts of Congress, all the way back to the beginning.
The problem is that after you were done, the first thing someone would ask you is to cross-cite everything into the West Annotated code because no one else has your code and no one cares about it, because we all have Westlaw.
(Which publishes commented editions of the codes, with cross references, references to relevant court decisions, etc.)
It's all a little bit antiquated but it works fine. Someday it will change. I too thought it should work the way people are describing upthread when I was a computer guy but it is what it is.
But you could do it too! The Congressional Record is a thing, and it publishes all the acts of Congress, all the way back to the beginning.
The problem is that after you were done, the first thing someone would ask you is to cross-cite everything into the West Annotated code because no one else has your code and no one cares about it, because we all have Westlaw.
(Which publishes commented editions of the codes, with cross references, references to relevant court decisions, etc.)
It's all a little bit antiquated but it works fine. Someday it will change. I too thought it should work the way people are describing upthread when I was a computer guy but it is what it is.