# kaal:claim:5887242-034

**Claim.** Every existing legal order allocates amendment authority by territory, wealth, appointment, or historical accident, and none allocates it exclusively by objectively demonstrated and continuously revalidated expertise.

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

**Source quote.**

> Every existing legal order allocates amendment authority either by territory (national legislatures), wealth (corporate boards), appointment (treaty organizations, bar associations), or historical accident (tenured judiciary).

**From.** Wulf A. Kaal, *The UDLC DAO Operationalizing a Continuously Evolving Universal Digital Law Codex Through Weighted* (2025), Chapter V.2, page 24

**Cite as.** Wulf A. Kaal, The UDLC DAO Operationalizing a Continuously Evolving Universal Digital Law Codex Through Weighted (2025). SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=5887242

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**Failure mode.** non-meritocratic-authority-allocation  (family: plutocratic-capture)

**Topics.** institutional-design

**Keywords.** amendment-authority, meritocracy, appointment, legitimacy-basis

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