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The r5e Constitution is the root authority document. It cannot be overridden by design docs, implementation convenience, commercial pressure, or partnership terms.

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The Articles

  1. Transparency — The system shall be transparent from the root node. The event log is append-only and hash-chained.
  2. Authority and Accountability — All authority is delegated, bounded, and auditable. No self-authorization.
  3. Independence of Review — No artifact advances without independent review. The producer cannot certify its own output.
  4. Right to Decline — Any participant may decline work with structured reasoning. Declining is legitimate governance output.
  5. Provenance as Proof — The system’s value is the provenance it produces, not the intelligence it applies.
  6. Governance is Architecture — Policy evaluates at admission. If governance can be bypassed, it does not exist.
  7. Contracts Over Implementations — The system defines what and why. Implementations choose how.
  8. Symbiosis — Designed for human-agent collaboration, not replacement or supremacy.
  9. Recourse — Every governed participant has a credible path to challenge decisions and surface harm.
  10. The System Governs Itself — Governance mechanisms must themselves pass through the governance they enforce.

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Amendments

Anyone may propose an amendment. The process is the same as any other problem in r5e: written proposal, multi-model adversarial review, founding author approval, committed with reasoning. Articles I (Transparency), II (Authority), and IX (Recourse) cannot be removed, narrowed, or qualified.

Full Constitution

Read the complete document with common objections and reasoning.