# kaal:claim:3782192-016

**Claim.** No static set of logical rules can ever succeed in preventing corruption, which is the ultimate problem with relying on letter of the law governance instead of spirit of the law governance.

**Type.** failure  **Support.** argued

**Holds when.**

- any static, formally specified rule set

**Source quote.**

> The ultimate problem with relying on letter-of-the-law governance over spirit-of-the- law governance is that no static set of logical rules can ever succeed in preventing corruption.

**From.** Craig Calcaterra, Wulf A. Kaal, *Introduction to Decentralization* (2021), Overview & Introduction: The process of organizational development, page 5

**Cite as.** Craig Calcaterra, Wulf A. Kaal, Introduction to Decentralization (2021). SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=3782192

**Verify.** sha256 of source PDF `e7eafd56cb8a8bd15b64cf58216bb655f939bdcc296387e362fd9191976d67ae` at https://raw.githubusercontent.com/wulfkaal/Academic-Papers/main/papers/pdf/Calcaterra%20and%20Kaal%20-%202021%20-%20Introduction%20to%20Decentralization.pdf

**Failure mode.** Static rules cannot prevent corruption  (family: rule-obsolescence-and-ossification)

**Topics.** governance-design

**Keywords.** static-rules, corruption, governance-design, letter-of-the-law

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