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+# Drafting Process
+
+## Branches
+
+`main` is the protected public branch. Direct mutation of ratified text should be
+exceptional. Ordinary changes should begin as proposals and enter `main` only
+after review.
+
+## Proposals
+
+Each proposal should identify:
+
+- the affected text
+- the reason for change
+- expected benefits
+- rights and minority-protection risks
+- implementation or transition concerns
+- dissenting arguments that remain unresolved
+
+Accepted proposals should be linked from the merge commit or preserved directly
+under `proposals/`.
+
+## Review
+
+Review must consider more than popularity. A proposal should be checked for:
+
+- due process risk
+- speech and association risk
+- privacy and surveillance risk
+- local autonomy risk
+- emergency-power abuse
+- concentration of authority
+- impact on politically weak minorities
+
+## Ratification
+
+Ratified snapshots are signed annotated Git tags named `ratified-YYYY-MM-DD`.
+Each tag message should identify the ratified scope, the public process used,
+and any unresolved minority report.