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Spirit of the law
Derived node: assembled mechanically from the claims carrying spirit-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.
- 3782192-019 : The second necessity for long-term stability is that the organization hold to its ideals and transcendental values, so that the spirit of the law overrides the letter of the law.
- 3782203-014 : It is impossible to set up formal rules that keep a group behaving cooperatively in the long run, even if those rules are policed perfectly; the spirit of the law matters more than the letter of the l