# Constitutional constraints

`kaal:entity:constitutional-constraints`

**Status.** derived

This node is assembled mechanically from the 2 claims that carry the concept tag `constitutional-constraints`. It is a roster of what the corpus says under this term. It is **not** an adjudicated definition: no single statement here has been ruled canonical, and no first-appearance call has been made. Read the claims and judge for yourself.

## Every claim under this term

2 claims across 2 works, 2020 to 2021.

**2020**

- [3709041-022](https://wulfkaal.github.io/claims/3709041-022) [failure/asserted] *(failure mode)* -- Representative democracies in the early 2020s were slow and inflexible because of their constitutional and institutional infrastructure and their legal systems, with change typically depending on the election of a new government after around four years at the earliest.
  > In the early 2020s, representative democracies were largely slow and inflexible because of their constitutional and institutional infrastructure and their respective legal systems.
  Kaal, Blockchain Technology for Good (2020). SSRN: https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=3709041

**2021**

- [3808867-020](https://wulfkaal.github.io/claims/3808867-020) [condition/argued] *(failure mode)* -- Upgrading existing representative democracies with decentralized supplemental voting systems may require constitutional or democratic support, and the availability of that support is dubious at best.
  > Of course, such upgrades to existing representative democracies may require constitutional or democratic support which is dubious at best.
  Wulf A. Kaal, How Decentralized Systems Can Upgrade AI (2021). SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=3808867

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