Part V · law, powers, fiscal survivability
The Constitution & the State
§16 The Charter and the hierarchy of norms
Inviolable jus cogens above the rebalancer; the Charter-Apex that is a rule, not a person; bounded emergency. See also The Charter.
§17 Rights, crime and justice as rebalancing
Punishment for manifested acts, not sensed intent; non-retroactivity; deterrence not revenge; justice as restoring the vector.
§18 The apparatus, value-flows, not org-charts
A federation of public, bounded AI agents; independently implemented, reconstructable, appealable, and owned rather than rented.
§19 The three duties and the fiscal base
The state funded primarily by operationally identifiable rent and priced cross-boundary harm rather than earned labour.
§20 Membership, external relations, and emergency
Membership and the participation condition; the bounded-emergency doctrine; exogenous-subversion as a failure mode.