The Nine Legislators of Civilization have two functions.

First is to pass worldwide regulations - each of which must be read aloud by a Legislator who thereby accepts responsibility for that regulation; and when that Legislator retires a new Legislator must be found to read aloud and accept responsibility for that regulation, or it will be stricken from the books.  Every regulation in Civilization, if something goes wrong with it, is the fault of one particular Legislator who accepted responsibility for it.  To speak it aloud, it is nowadays thought, symbolizes the acceptance of this responsibility.

Modern dath ilani aren't really the types in the first place to produce literally-unspeakable enormous volumes of legislation that no hapless citizen or professional politician could ever even read within their one lifetime let alone understand.  Even the ones who aren't professional programmers have written enough code to know that each line of code to maintain is an ongoing cost.  Even the ones who aren't professional economists know that regulatory burdens on economies increase quadratically in the cost imposed on each transaction.  They would regard it as contrary to the notion of a lawful polity with law-abiding citizens that the citizens cannot possibly know what all the laws are, let alone obey them all.  Dath ilani don't really go in for fake laws in the same way as Golarion polities with lots of them; they take laws much too seriously to put laws on the books just for show.

But if somehow the dath ilani forgot all that, and did not immediately rederive it, the constitutional requirement that a Legislator periodically speak a regulation aloud to keep it effective would serve as a final check on the cancerous growth of legislative codebases.

Plenty of Legislators pass through their whole terms of office without ever speaking any new regulation into existence.  Their function is not to make regulations.  Civilization already has regulations.  Legislators mostly maintain and repair those regulations, and express the changing preferences of Civilization about which final outcomes it wants to steer for using its policy prediction markets.  New system features are terrifically expensive when everyone governed by them has to remember every relevant line of code.  If you want any new feature implemented in Civilization, you'd better be ready to explain which old features should be repealed to make room.

The Nine Legislators of Civilization have two functions.

First is to pass worldwide regulations - each of which must be read aloud by a Legislator who thereby accepts responsibility for that regulation; and when that Legislator retires a new Legislator must be found to read aloud and accept responsibility for that regulation, or it will be stricken from the books.  Every regulation in Civilization, if something goes wrong with it, is the fault of one particular Legislator who accepted responsibility for it.  To speak it aloud, it is nowadays thought, symbolizes the acceptance of this responsibility.

Modern dath ilani aren't really the types in the first place to produce literally-unspeakable enormous volumes of legislation that no hapless citizen or professional politician could ever read within their one lifetime let alone understand.  Even dath ilani who aren't professional programmers have written enough code to know that each line of code to maintain is an ongoing cost.  Even dath ilani who aren't professional economists know that regulatory burdens on economies increase quadratically in the cost imposed on each transaction.  They would regard it as contrary to the notion of a lawful polity with law-abiding citizens that the citizens cannot possibly know what all the laws are, let alone obey them.  Dath ilani don't go in for fake laws in the same way as Golarion polities with lots of them; they take laws much too seriously to put laws on the books just for show.

But if somehow the dath ilani forgot all that, and did not immediately rederive it, the constitutional requirement that a Legislator periodically speak a regulation aloud to keep it effective would serve as a final check on the cancerous growth of legislative codebases.

Plenty of Legislators pass through their whole terms of office without ever speaking any new regulation into existence.  Their function is not to make regulations.  Civilization already has regulations.  Legislators mostly maintain and repair those regulations, and negotiate the changing preferences of Civilization about which final outcomes it wants to steer for using its policy prediction markets.  New system features are terrifically expensive when everyone governed by them has to remember every relevant line of code.  If you want any new feature implemented in Civilization, you'd better be ready to explain which old features should be repealed to make room.