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   "text": "Outlier governance mechanisms rose sharply in the dataset: three per year in 2015 and 2016, then eighteen in 2017, and five in the first six months of 2018.",
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   "text": "Overreliance on the design of constitutional democracies limits experimentation with decentralized solutions for organizing society, because exclusive reliance on a single legal document combined with widespread voter apathy makes the constitutional model appear to be the only lasting form of organization.",
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   "text": "Experimentation with decentralized organizational forms of society is curtailed by the principle of territorial integrity of nation states, a foundational principle of international law under which forced border change justifies war and which sustains a permanent national military presence.",
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