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   "text": "Ancient Egypt and China remained remarkably stable for thousands of years because of the protocol decentralization fostered by their Rule of Virtue legal systems.",
   "abstract": "An- cient Egypt and China were remarkably stable for thousands of years due to the pro- tocol decentralization fostered by their Rule of Virtue legal system.",
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   "text": "Legal garbage collection faces an unavoidable tradeoff: streamlining the legal framework by removing outdated laws must be balanced against preserving legal history, since historical statutes record the evolution of legal principles and societal values.",
   "abstract": "While the removal of outdated laws can help streamline the legal framework, there is also a need to balance this with the preservation of legal history.",
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   "text": "The WDAG system preserves legal history as a byproduct of its architecture: all legal precedents are retained within a blockchain based framework in a transparent and immutable format, so historical access does not trade off against current relevance.",
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