# kaal:claim:3782220-030

**Claim.** A centralized hierarchy becomes too rigid when those policing the rules gain more power than the members who honor the transcendental value that originally founded the organization, and the spirit of the law should always reign above the letter of the law.

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

**Holds when.**

- centralized hierarchies with rule enforcement roles

**Source quote.**

> A centralized hierarchy becomes too rigid when those policing the rules gain more power than the members who are honoring the transcendental value that originally founded the organization. The spirit of the law should always reign above the letter of the law.

**From.** Craig Calcaterra, Wulf A. Kaal, *The Importance of Transcendental Unifying Values for Decentralization* (2021), Integrating polar values, page 9

**Cite as.** Craig Calcaterra, Wulf A. Kaal, The Importance of Transcendental Unifying Values for Decentralization (2021). SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=3782220

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**Failure mode.** enforcer capture of the hierarchy  (family: recentralization-drift)

**Topics.** compliance, institutional-design, decentralization

**Keywords.** rule-enforcement, letter-versus-spirit, hierarchy-decay, centralization

**Related claims.**

- restates: https://wulfkaal.github.io/claims/3782203-014
- extends: https://wulfkaal.github.io/claims/3782203-003

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