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   "text": "Private codifications such as the Uniform Commercial Code and INCOTERMS remain static texts that can be amended only through protracted, committee-driven processes, and those processes inevitably favor incumbents and territorial interests.",
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   "text": "The combined Work and Availability Smart Contract system eliminates the single greatest barrier to private legal codification, namely funding and coordinating high-quality drafting, while aligning incentives toward rapid meritocratic expansion.",
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   "text": "The UDLC's annual AI-assisted review and legal garbage collection obligations are core constitutional safeguards, not housekeeping, because ossification has historically doomed every large-scale private codification effort.",
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