"Power over the rules is real power. That's why lobbyists congregate when Congress writes laws, and why the Supreme Court, which interprets and delineates the Constitution – the rules for writing the rules – has even more power than Congress. If you want to understand the deepest malfunctions of systems, pay attention to the rules and to who has power over them."
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Donella Meadows, Thinking in Systems: A Primer, Chelsea Green Publishing, 2008, pages 158 (ISBN 9781603580557).
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