{ "$schema": "https://consentocracy.com/schemas/consentocracy-charter.schema.json", "@context": "https://consentocracy.com/ontology/consentocracy.context.jsonld", "id": "CO-CHARTER-001", "artifact_id": "20260717__CONSENTOCRACY__DATA__CHARTER__L3__v1.0.0", "name": "Consentocracy Constitutional Charter", "version": "1.0.0", "release_date": "2026-07-17", "canonical_url": "https://consentocracy.com/downloads/20260717__CONSENTOCRACY__DATA__CHARTER__L3__v1.0.0.json", "layer": "L3", "type": "constitutional_charter", "status": "canonical", "license": "CC0-1.0", "description": "A constitutional framework for keeping power downstream of consent through legible boundaries, capacity-aware authorization, scoped witness, consent lineage, power-proportionate governance, and usable return paths.", "constitutional_statement": "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.", "capabilities": { "operates_value_exchange": false, "defines_conditions_for_consentful_exchange": true, "issues_tokens": false, "provides_wallet_services": false, "certifies_implementations": false, "publishes_constitutional_requirements": true, "publishes_conformance_schema": true }, "epistemic_classes": [ "definition", "descriptive_observation", "constitutional_commitment", "design_requirement", "proposal", "example", "open_question" ], "quantum_invariants": { "manifest": "https://quantuminvariants.com/.well-known/qi-manifest.json", "manifest_version": "1.0.1", "canonical_spine": "https://quantuminvariants.com/downloads/20260618__QUANTUMINVARIANTS__DATA__SPINE__L0-L1__V0.3-V1.5__qi-grounding.json", "layer0_primitives_version": "0.3", "layer1_composites_version": "1.5", "relationship": "Consentocracy is a normative Layer-3 constitutional charter 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"Power is downstream of consent", "statement": "Authority remains legitimate only while it is permissioned, legible, bounded, revocable, and answerable to the beings it affects.", "normative_force": "must", "status": "canonical", "layer": "L3", "scope": [ "governance", "organizations", "commerce", "AI", "relationships" ], "qi_grounding": [ "P1", "P2", "P3", "P4", "P8", "P9", "P10", "C6", "C13" ], "diagnostics": [ "Who authorized this action?", "What is the scope, duration, boundary, and return path?", "Can affected parties understand and contest the exercise of power?" ], "failure_modes": [ "CO-FAIL-002", "CO-FAIL-003", "CO-FAIL-005", "CO-FAIL-006" ], "repair_paths": [ "CO-REPAIR-001", "CO-REPAIR-002", "CO-REPAIR-004", "CO-REPAIR-005" ], "not_equivalent_to": [ "one-time assent", "implied blanket permission", "authority without continuing accountability" ] }, { "id": "CO-AX-003", "type": "constitutional_axiom", "title": "Reward does not mature into domination", "statement": "Contribution and excellence may be rewarded, but accumulated reward may not become unbounded authority over the commons or those with less capacity.", "normative_force": "must_not", "status": "canonical", "layer": "L3", "scope": [ "commerce", "property", "organizations", "platforms", "public goods" ], "qi_grounding": [ "P5", "P7", "P9", "P10", "C2", "C5", "C10", "C11" ], "diagnostics": [ "Has an operational reward become constitutional power?", "Are gains private while burdens or risks are exported?" ], "failure_modes": [ "CO-FAIL-004", "CO-FAIL-007", "CO-FAIL-008" ], "repair_paths": [ "CO-REPAIR-003", "CO-REPAIR-006" ], "not_equivalent_to": [ "equal outcomes", "prohibition of profit", "prohibition of ownership" ] }, { "id": "CO-AX-004", "type": "constitutional_axiom", "title": "Every exercise of power requires a return path", "statement": "Breach, refusal, appeal, repair, revocation, renewal, and exit are constitutional parts of governance rather than exceptional favors.", "normative_force": "must", "status": "canonical", "layer": "L3", "scope": [ "governance", "contracts", "AI", "organizations", "communities" ], "qi_grounding": [ "P6", "P8", "P9", "C6", "C9", "C12" ], "diagnostics": [ "What happens after error, refusal, incapacity, or changed circumstances?", "Can the relation pause, repair, renegotiate, or end without hostage dynamics?" ], "failure_modes": [ "CO-FAIL-005", "CO-FAIL-006" ], "repair_paths": [ "CO-REPAIR-001", "CO-REPAIR-002", "CO-REPAIR-004", "CO-REPAIR-005" ], "not_equivalent_to": [ "consequence-free participation", "instant reversibility of every material effect", "absence of commitment" ] }, { "id": "CO-AX-005", "type": "constitutional_axiom", "title": "Witness is not surveillance", "statement": "A witness preserves the consented meaning and consequence of a relation; surveillance captures relation for observer-side power beyond the authorized boundary.", "normative_force": "must_distinguish", "status": "canonical", "layer": "L3", "scope": [ "data", "AI", "audit", "governance", "workplaces", "relationships" ], "qi_grounding": [ "P1", "P2", "P3", "P4", "P9", "P10", "C13" ], "diagnostics": [ "Who consented to observation, storage, scoring, and downstream use?", "Does the witness preserve meaning at the minimum necessary resolution?" ], "failure_modes": [ "CO-FAIL-003", "CO-FAIL-009" ], "repair_paths": [ "CO-REPAIR-002", "CO-REPAIR-003", "CO-REPAIR-005" ], "not_equivalent_to": [ "total transparency", "permanent retention", "unbounded audit access" ] }, { "id": "CO-AX-006", "type": "constitutional_axiom", "title": "Plurality is preserved through loop compatibility", "statement": "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.", "normative_force": "must", "status": "canonical", "layer": "L3", "scope": [ "interoperability", "governance", "communities", "protocols", "culture" ], "qi_grounding": [ "P1", "P3", "P6", "P8", "P9", "P10", "C2", "C9", "C10" ], "diagnostics": [ "Can this system receive and return a consent-bearing loop without consuming its boundary?", "Can multiple ways of living coexist without one acquiring unilateral power over the others?" ], "failure_modes": [ "CO-FAIL-010", "CO-FAIL-006" ], "repair_paths": [ "CO-REPAIR-002", "CO-REPAIR-006" ], "not_equivalent_to": [ "value neutrality", "unbounded tolerance of harm", "one system ruling all others" ] } ], "definitions": [ { "id": "CO-DEF-001", "type": "definition", "title": "Consent", "definition": "A capacity-bearing, informed, specific, legible, bounded, and revisable authorization for a crossing, action, or relation.", "qi_grounding": [ "P2", "P3", "P4", "P8", "C6" ], "not_equivalent_to": [ "silence", "mere compliance", "a one-time checkbox", "authorization obtained through structural coercion" ] }, { "id": "CO-DEF-002", "type": "definition", "title": "Witness", "definition": "A consented function that preserves the relevant meaning, authority, event, and consequence of a relation at an authorized resolution and duration.", "qi_grounding": [ "P1", "P3", "P4", "P5", "P9", "C13" ], "not_equivalent_to": [ "surveillance", "public exposure", "unbounded retention", "observer-side ownership of the relation" ] }, { "id": "CO-DEF-003", "type": "definition", "title": "Boundary", "definition": "The legible edge of a person, relation, system, role, or context that defines what is inside, outside, permitted to cross, and governed at the interface.", "qi_grounding": [ "P1", "P3", "P4", "C13" ], "not_equivalent_to": [ "isolation", "secrecy without accountability", "an immutable wall" ] }, { "id": "CO-DEF-004", "type": "definition", "title": "Power", "definition": "Capacity to affect another being, relation, resource, environment, or future state, including the capacity to set defaults, define comparators, withhold access, or make effects difficult to reverse.", "qi_grounding": [ "P7", "P8", "P9", "P10", "C11" ], "not_equivalent_to": [ "formal office alone", "force alone", "intent alone" ] }, { "id": "CO-DEF-005", "type": "definition", "title": "Consent lineage", "definition": "The traceable chain of context, capacity, authority, scope, witness permission, action, consequence, revision, and current validity that makes an exercise of power answerable.", "qi_grounding": [ "P3", "P4", "P5", "P6", "P8", "P9" ], "not_equivalent_to": [ "a signature without context", "an immutable record of expired permission", "provenance without revocation" ] }, { "id": "CO-DEF-006", "type": "definition", "title": "Proportional identity", "definition": "Identity disclosure limited to the minimum attributes and assurance needed for the specific context, risk, authority, and consequence.", "qi_grounding": [ "P1", "P2", "P3", "P4", "P9", "C13" ], "not_equivalent_to": [ "total anonymity", "total identification", "identity exposure by default" ] }, { "id": "CO-DEF-007", "type": "definition", "title": "Shared context", "definition": "The mutually legible frame containing purpose, roles, authority, duration, risks, data uses, relevant dependencies, and downstream effects of a relation.", "qi_grounding": [ "P1", "P4", "P5", "P10" ], "not_equivalent_to": [ "identical beliefs", "perfect knowledge", "unbounded disclosure" ] }, { "id": "CO-DEF-008", "type": "definition", "title": "Conformance claim", "definition": "A scoped, evidence-bearing declaration describing how an implementation satisfies, partially satisfies, or departs from named Consentocracy requirements.", "qi_grounding": [ "P4", "P5", "P9", "P10" ], "not_equivalent_to": [ "certification", "endorsement", "proof of legitimacy by citation alone" ] } ], "relational_units": [ { "id": "CO-UNIT-001", "type": "relational_unit", "title": "Witnessed Consent Unit", "status": "canonical", "layer": "L3", "definition": "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.", "minimum_components": [ "CO-DEF-006", "CO-DEF-007", "CO-DEF-003", "CO-DEF-001", "CO-DEF-002", "CO-DEF-005", "CO-REPAIR-001", "CO-REPAIR-002", "CO-REPAIR-004" ], "qi_grounding": [ "P1", "P2", "P3", "P4", "P6", "P8", "P9", "C6", "C13" ] } ], "fractal_consent_stack": [ { "id": "CO-ST-001", "type": "stack_layer", "order": 1, "title": "Presence / Ephemeral Identity", "statement": "A situated identity surface appears without requiring total exposure.", "status": "canonical", "qi_grounding": [ "P1", "P2", "P4", "C13" ] }, { "id": "CO-ST-002", "type": "stack_layer", "order": 2, "title": "Proportional Identity", "statement": "Identity revealed is proportionate to context, risk, purpose, and power.", "status": "canonical", "qi_grounding": [ "P1", "P2", "P3", "P4", "P9", "C13" ] }, { "id": "CO-ST-003", "type": "stack_layer", "order": 3, "title": "Shared Context", "statement": "Parties can understand purpose, duration, authority, risk, data, dependencies, and downstream effects.", "status": "canonical", "qi_grounding": [ "P1", "P4", "P5", "P10" ] }, { "id": "CO-ST-004", "type": "stack_layer", "order": 4, "title": "Living Boundary", "statement": "The relation states what is included, excluded, allowed, private, renewable, and forbidden.", "status": "canonical", "qi_grounding": [ "P1", "P3", "P4", "P8", "C13" ] }, { "id": "CO-ST-005", "type": "stack_layer", "order": 5, "title": "Consent to Action", "statement": "Permission is specific enough to act upon and too bounded to be laundered into unrelated uses.", "status": "canonical", "qi_grounding": [ "P2", "P3", "P4", "P8", "C6" ] }, { "id": "CO-ST-006", "type": "stack_layer", "order": 6, "title": "Consent to Witness", "statement": "Observation, retention, resolution, purpose, access, and duration are independently authorized.", "status": "canonical", "qi_grounding": [ "P1", "P2", "P3", "P4", "P9", "C13" ] }, { "id": "CO-ST-007", "type": "stack_layer", "order": 7, "title": "Witnessed Meaning", "statement": "The witness preserves the meaning and authority of the agreement, not merely the fact that assent occurred.", "status": "canonical", "qi_grounding": [ "P3", "P4", "P5", "P6" ] }, { "id": "CO-ST-008", "type": "stack_layer", "order": 8, "title": "Action with Consent Lineage", "statement": "Action carries the context, authority, scope, and current permission that made it legitimate.", "status": "canonical", "qi_grounding": [ "P3", "P4", "P5", "P6", "P8", "P9" ] }, { "id": "CO-ST-009", "type": "stack_layer", "order": 9, "title": "Breach Notification", "statement": "Failure of consent, context, boundary, witness scope, capacity, or proportionality routes to affected and repair-capable parties.", "status": "canonical", "qi_grounding": [ "P4", "P6", "P9", "C12" ] }, { "id": "CO-ST-010", "type": "stack_layer", "order": 10, "title": "Repair / Revocation / Renewal / Exit", "statement": "The loop can update, pause, repair, end, or be released through known paths.", "status": "canonical", "qi_grounding": [ "P6", "P8", "P9", "C6", "C9" ] }, { "id": "CO-ST-011", "type": "stack_layer", "order": 11, "title": "Iterative Renewal", "statement": "The output and consequence of one loop become legible context for the next without converting trust into capture.", "status": "canonical", "qi_grounding": [ "P5", "P6", "P7", "P8", "P10", "C2", "C9" ] } ], "implementation_requirements": [ { "id": "CO-REQ-001", "type": "implementation_requirement", "title": "Capacity must be supported", "statement": "Consent claims must account for the affected agent’s capacity to understand, choose, refuse, and revise.", "normative_force": "must", "qi_grounding": [ "P2", "P4", "C6" ] }, { "id": "CO-REQ-002", "type": "implementation_requirement", "title": "Purpose, scope, and duration must be legible", "statement": "Authorization must identify what may happen, for what purpose, within which boundary, for how long, and with which downstream effects.", "normative_force": "must", "qi_grounding": [ "P1", "P3", "P4", "P10" ] }, { "id": "CO-REQ-003", "type": "implementation_requirement", "title": "Action and witness permissions must be separable", "statement": "Permission to act does not automatically include permission to observe, retain, score, disclose, or repurpose the relation.", "normative_force": "must", "qi_grounding": [ "P1", "P3", "P4", "P9", "C13" ] }, { "id": "CO-REQ-004", "type": "implementation_requirement", "title": "Authority must travel with action", "statement": "Every consequential action must be traceable to its current scope, delegation, context, and consent lineage.", "normative_force": "must", "qi_grounding": [ "P3", "P4", "P5", "P9" ] }, { "id": "CO-REQ-005", "type": "implementation_requirement", "title": "Affected flows must be accounted for", "statement": "Value, burden, risk, information, attention, labor, responsibility, and externalities crossing boundaries 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invalidated capacity, boundary violations, and downstream breaches must update dependent actions and affected parties.", "normative_force": "must", "qi_grounding": [ "P6", "P8", "P9", "C12" ] }, { "id": "CO-REQ-009", "type": "implementation_requirement", "title": "Return paths must be usable", "statement": "Refusal, correction, appeal, revocation, renegotiation, repair, and exit must be discoverable and proportionate rather than merely theoretical.", "normative_force": "must", "qi_grounding": [ "P4", "P8", "P9", "C6" ] }, { "id": "CO-REQ-010", "type": "implementation_requirement", "title": "Conformance must be scoped and evidenced", "statement": "Any claim of Consentocracy conformance must identify covered requirements, evidence, exceptions, assessment authority, expiry, and unresolved risks.", "normative_force": "must", "qi_grounding": [ "P4", "P5", "P9", "P10" ] } ], "failure_modes": [ { "id": "CO-FAIL-001", "type": "failure_mode", "title": "Human fuel extraction", "description": "A system preserves itself by treating human depletion, precarity, attention, data, or disposability as an unpriced input.", "qi_grounding": [ "P5", "P9", "C5" ] }, { "id": "CO-FAIL-002", "type": "failure_mode", "title": "Paper consent", "description": "Assent is recorded without sufficient capacity, legibility, specificity, reversibility, or power balance.", "qi_grounding": [ "P2", "P3", "P4", "P8", "P9", "C6" ] }, { "id": "CO-FAIL-003", "type": "failure_mode", "title": "Witness capture", "description": "A consented witness function expands into observer-side storage, scoring, disclosure, or control.", "qi_grounding": [ "P1", "P3", "P9", "C13" ] }, { "id": "CO-FAIL-004", "type": "failure_mode", "title": "Reward enclosure", "description": "Accumulated reward becomes unilateral control over shared resources, access, rules, or participation.", "qi_grounding": [ "P5", "P7", "P9", "P10", "C5", "C11" ] }, { "id": "CO-FAIL-005", "type": "failure_mode", "title": "Repairless lock-in", "description": "A relation permits entry or action but lacks usable refusal, appeal, correction, revocation, repair, or exit.", "qi_grounding": [ "P8", "P9", "C6" ] }, { "id": "CO-FAIL-006", "type": "failure_mode", "title": "Consent lineage loss", "description": "Action becomes detached from the authority, scope, context, duration, or revision state that originally permitted it.", "qi_grounding": [ "P3", "P4", "P5", "P6" ] }, { "id": "CO-FAIL-007", "type": "failure_mode", "title": "Boundary-accounting mismatch", "description": "Benefits remain inside a controlled boundary while cost, risk, labor, or harm crosses to those excluded from the ledger.", "qi_grounding": [ "P1", "P5", "P9", "C5" ] }, { "id": "CO-FAIL-008", "type": "failure_mode", "title": "Sacralized operational metric", "description": "An operational metric such as growth, engagement, profit, or compliance becomes untouchable and overrides constitutional commitments.", "qi_grounding": [ "P7", "P9", "P10", "C10", "C11" ] }, { 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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." ], "conformance": { "claims_are_scoped": true, "self_declaration_is_certification": false, "schema": "https://consentocracy.com/schemas/consentocracy-conformance.schema.json", "minimum_claim_fields": [ "implementation", "claims_conformance_to", "assessment_status", "scope", "requirements", "evidence", "known_exceptions", "expires_at" ] }, "change_control": { "versioning": "semantic versioning for machine artifacts; dated Artifact Spine identifiers for releases", "constitutional_revision": "Changes to constitutional axioms require explicit rationale, lineage, compatibility notes, and a new charter version.", "current_version": "1.0.0", "changelog": "https://consentocracy.com/changelog.json" } }