“…Laws' consequentiality and accessibility make them a unique type of primary data and a critical data point as both an outcome of political processes and a cause of socio‐legal phenomena. Social scientists study laws to understand numerous social phenomena, including colonial legacies, constitutions, immigration, elections, state repression of civil society, and norm‐breaking presidential appointments (Berinzon & Briggs, 2019; Blake et al, 2021; Cook‐Mart'ın & FitzGerald, 2019; Glasius et al, 2020; Hummel et al, 2021; Kinane, 2021). Despite their importance and accessibility, researchers do not always account for the content within legal texts in the manner that they should, and this article proposes a remedy.…”