constitution/process.md

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.