Later on there will be time enough to say whether you agree or disagree. But first you better know what the law says about itself. There is a natural flow to the legal system that allows you to search for systematic meaning. You can explore the wider context of any law by following its journey through the major branches of the legal process. True legal research retraces this path, which ultimately leads in an institutional circle.
New laws generate new interpretations, which lead ultimately to more new laws.
Your legal research fits somewhere into this cycle. If you begin your research by finding a basic statute, you have a good foundation for moving through the whole legal process. In truth, you can jump into this process at any point, as long as you cycle back through the various stages. It helps, though, to think of statutes as the basic reference point. At the top of every page, you will find a grid with four quadrants representing the connected stages of this process.