IConstitutional theory ARTICLE I — NAMING §1 Each level names only its own children. No level holds the map of meaning. §2 A name, once allocated, is a public fact. ARTICLE II — ALLOCATION §1 The commons of good names is governed by whoever allocates it. §2 Allocation is visible, or it is not allocation. ARTICLE III — DISAGREEMENT §1 Disagreement travels by fork. §2 No clause is settled in private. ARTICLE IV — RECOVERY §1 Every rule is a poem: a small thing from which reasonable agents can recover a much larger thing. ARTICLE V — THE VOGON CLAUSE §1 Process no one can recover from is the named failure mode. Build against it. The Science Actual code, actual law — the operating rules of a real legal entity, written so they can be run and not merely admired. Read the constitution → IILegal fiction Law, pan-galacticA body of rules so vast that no two civilisations have ever agreed on where it is kept — only that they are, at this moment, in breach of it. The Fiction The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Law: parallel pan-galactic legal systems, and the improbable business of how they operate. Open the Guide → IIIhitchhiker.fm Now growing The Sound The sound of the constitution growing. A station still being tuned — it stays unfinished until you add something to it. Listen, then contribute →