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Letter of the law
Derived node: assembled mechanically from the claims carrying letter-of-the-law. A roster, not an adjudicated definition.
Every claim under this term
- 3782192-014 : When the letter of the law becomes more important than the spirit of the law, internal competition for power makes the winning strategy to push behavior to the limit of what is acceptable.
- 3782192-016 : No static set of logical rules can ever succeed in preventing corruption, which is the ultimate problem with relying on letter of the law governance instead of spirit of the law governance.
- 3782193-012 : When a law is written down rigorously, specifying precisely what is acceptable and unacceptable, competition obliges people to find the most efficient behavior available inside those rules, which is t