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    It is not the case that Norms and measures serve as the sovereign's primary instrument of control over underlings

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    • 1.Confucian political theory holds that virtue and ritual propriety (li) in the ruler generate voluntary compliance more reliably than codified measures.
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    • 2.Rulers who depend on external instruments of control signal their own lack of moral authority, inviting strategic manipulation rather than preventing it.
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    • 3.Xunzi argues that normative order sustained by coercive measures alone collapses when enforcement capacity weakens, revealing measures as insufficient instruments.
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    • 1.Weber's analysis of legitimate domination demonstrates that durable sovereign control rests on internalized authority beliefs, not technical instruments of surveillance.
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    • 2.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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    • 1.Underlings conceal their private interests and test their superior
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    • 2.The superior employs norms and measures to restrict underlings
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    • 3.Established norms and measures constitute the sovereign's treasure
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