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    Challenges→Norms and measures serve as the sovereign's primary instrument of control over underlings

    Legalist norms and measures presuppose a monitoring infrastructure whose own agents face the same concealment problem the system was designed to solve, generating infinite regress.

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    Key Terms

    Concealment problem(as used in ethics and governance)
    The challenge of preventing people from hiding rule-breaking or dishonest behavior when no one is watching.
    Legalist(as used in political philosophy)
    Relating to a system of government or ethics based strictly on written laws and rules rather than on personal judgment or flexibility.
    Monitoring infrastructure(as used in political philosophy)
    The systems, institutions, and tools (like surveillance cameras, inspectors, or audits) put in place to watch over and check that rules are being followed.
    infinite regress(modes of argumentation available to a dogmatist)
    An argument structure in which grounds are offered for a claim P, then grounds for those grounds, and so on indefinitely without ever repeating a proposition

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    norms(Contrasted with natural laws in the context of historical explanation.)
    Rules that, unlike natural laws, change from time to time and may be followed or disregarded.

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