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   "text": "In the WDAG system a legal precedent or rule that gains favor because it is effective automatically receives a higher weight, and that weight is set by user preferences and citations rather than by any legislative act.",
   "abstract": "In the WDAG system, when a new legal precedent or rule gains favor due to its effectiveness, it automatically receives a higher weight in the system based on user preferences and citations.",
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   "text": "Political resistance to repeal dissolves under the WDAG model because a rule that loses substantial backing simply diminishes in relevance through the citation mechanism, with no external legislative act of repeal to contest.",
   "abstract": "dynamically reflecting evolving support or opposition to legal precedents through a citation mechanism. If a legal rule loses substantial backing, its relevance diminishes organically within the WDAG framework, without the need for external legislative intervention.",
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   "text": "Because citation integrity determines both economic reward and governance power in on-chain reputation systems, the citation mechanism is a load bearing structural element of the entire governance architecture rather than an academic courtesy.",
   "abstract": "and when the perceived value of contributions is itself a function of how subsequent work references prior work, the integrity of the citation mechanism becomes a load-bearing structural element of the entire governance architecture.",
   "citation": "Wulf A. Kaal, Citation Honesty Mechanisms in Weighted Directed Acyclic Graph Governance (2026). SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=6269518",
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