--- title: Consentocracy Constitutional Charter artifact_id: 20260717__CONSENTOCRACY__DATA__CHARTER__L3__v1.0.0 version: 1.0.0 status: canonical layer: L3 license: CC0-1.0 canonical_json: https://consentocracy.com/downloads/20260717__CONSENTOCRACY__DATA__CHARTER__L3__v1.0.0.json --- # Consentocracy Constitutional Charter > Consentocracy does not operate the exchange. It publishes the constitutional conditions under which an exchange—or any other exercise of power—may remain answerable to consent. ## Constitutional axioms ### CO-AX-001 — Humans are not fuel People are the purpose of civilization, not expendable material for systems, markets, institutions, or machines. ### CO-AX-002 — Power is downstream of consent Authority remains legitimate only while it is permissioned, legible, bounded, revocable, and answerable to the beings it affects. ### CO-AX-003 — Reward does not mature into domination Contribution and excellence may be rewarded, but accumulated reward may not become unbounded authority over the commons or those with less capacity. ### CO-AX-004 — Every exercise of power requires a return path Breach, refusal, appeal, repair, revocation, renewal, and exit are constitutional parts of governance rather than exceptional favors. ### CO-AX-005 — Witness is not surveillance A witness preserves the consented meaning and consequence of a relation; surveillance captures relation for observer-side power beyond the authorized boundary. ### CO-AX-006 — Plurality is preserved through loop compatibility Consentocracy does not require uniform internal methods; it requires systems to preserve consent-bearing boundaries, authority, witnessable lineage, and return paths where their loops touch others. ## The Witnessed Consent Unit A bounded relationship between identity-bearing agents in a shared context, where consent is explicit enough to act upon, witnessed enough to preserve meaning, and iterative enough to renew, repair, revoke, or exit. ## Implementation requirements ### CO-REQ-001 — Capacity must be supported Consent claims must account for the affected agent’s capacity to understand, choose, refuse, and revise. ### CO-REQ-002 — Purpose, scope, and duration must be legible Authorization must identify what may happen, for what purpose, within which boundary, for how long, and with which downstream effects. ### CO-REQ-003 — Action and witness permissions must be separable Permission to act does not automatically include permission to observe, retain, score, disclose, or repurpose the relation. ### CO-REQ-004 — Authority must travel with action Every consequential action must be traceable to its current scope, delegation, context, and consent lineage. ### CO-REQ-005 — Affected flows must be accounted for Value, burden, risk, information, attention, labor, responsibility, and externalities crossing boundaries must be legible at appropriate granularity. ### CO-REQ-006 — Power determines governance burden Governance, evidence, review, and repair obligations must increase with impact radius, asymmetry, irreversibility, and externality. ### CO-REQ-007 — Constitutional comparators outrank operational metrics Throughput, engagement, growth, profit, compliance velocity, or convenience may not silently override dignity, consent, boundary, or repair commitments. ### CO-REQ-008 — Breach and changed context must propagate Material changes, expired authority, invalidated capacity, boundary violations, and downstream breaches must update dependent actions and affected parties. ### CO-REQ-009 — Return paths must be usable Refusal, correction, appeal, revocation, renegotiation, repair, and exit must be discoverable and proportionate rather than merely theoretical. ### CO-REQ-010 — Conformance must be scoped and evidenced Any claim of Consentocracy conformance must identify covered requirements, evidence, exceptions, assessment authority, expiry, and unresolved risks. ## Nonclaims - Consentocracy is not a political party. - Consentocracy is not a commercial exchange, marketplace, payment rail, cryptocurrency, or token project. - Consentocracy does not issue wallets, tokens, financial instruments, or investment products. - Consentocracy does not certify an implementation merely because it cites the charter. - Consentocracy does not treat self-declaration as proof of legitimacy. - Consentocracy does not claim that every form of governance can become immediately voluntary. - Consentocracy does not equate transparency with unlimited visibility. - Consentocracy does not treat one-time assent, silence, or unavoidable participation as durable consent. - Consentocracy does not eliminate standards, responsibility, consequences, or lawful protections. - Consentocracy does not require uniform cultures, institutions, or internal methods.