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   "text": "As code proliferates as law, the democratic legitimacy of coded legal arrangements is increasingly called into question, because private actors have assumed governance tasks traditionally belonging to democratically elected sovereign states and may circumvent democratically legitimized governments.",
   "abstract": "Given the proliferation of code as law, the democratic legitimacy of coded legal arrangements are increasingly called into question. Through code, private actors have created governance tasks that were traditionally the responsibility of democratically elected sovereign states and state actors.",
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   "text": "Impact 1.0 foundations developed plutocratic power structures because their leaders and trustees were never democratically elected, and Impact 3.0 addresses this by adding WEB3 collaborative democratic measures on top of the existing foundation structures.",
   "abstract": "further improve Impact 1.0 private foundations by adding collaborative WEB3 democratic measures that address plutocratic power structures in Impact 1.0 foundations that originated in the lack of democratic elections of Impact 1.0 foundations' organizations' leaders or trustees.",
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   "text": "Subjecting every community vote to review by a council that is not democratically elected defeats the governance value of community voting, as scored for Goldfinch DAO with a governance score of 2.",
   "abstract": "involves all community votes being reviewed by the council, which is not democratically elected (G: 2).",
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