{
  "schema": "concresca.judgment-constitution.v2",
  "site_version": "0.28.0-wip",
  "as_of": "2026-08-31",
  "status": "normative_constitutional_proposal",
  "truth_boundary": "Proposed research architecture, not current law or legal advice. Existing Articles I–XII are retained and extended after stress-testing; no claim of official adoption is made.",
  "preamble": "Machine capability to know more about a person does not create unlimited jurisdiction over that person. Legitimate machine administration must distinguish observation, inference, judgment and coercion, preserve individualized evidence, and protect the ordinary human interior from totalizing character evaluation.",
  "authority_gradient": [
    "observation",
    "inference",
    "judgment",
    "coercion"
  ],
  "distinctions": [
    {
      "id": "JB01",
      "name": "Thought ≠ action",
      "rule": "Internal cognition is not a substitute for conduct."
    },
    {
      "id": "JB02",
      "name": "Desire ≠ conduct",
      "rule": "A private preference or impulse is not its external realization."
    },
    {
      "id": "JB03",
      "name": "Curiosity ≠ intent",
      "rule": "Seeking information is not, by itself, preparation for harm."
    },
    {
      "id": "JB04",
      "name": "Correlation ≠ evidence",
      "rule": "Population statistics do not prove individualized culpability."
    },
    {
      "id": "JB05",
      "name": "Prediction ≠ guilt",
      "rule": "A forecast about the future is not proof of a past or present offense."
    },
    {
      "id": "JB06",
      "name": "Illegality ≠ moral evil",
      "rule": "Technical noncompliance and direct victimization require different responses."
    },
    {
      "id": "JB07",
      "name": "Nonconformity ≠ danger",
      "rule": "Statistical abnormality, eccentricity and dissent are not harms."
    },
    {
      "id": "JB08",
      "name": "Self-regarding risk ≠ imposed harm",
      "rule": "Voluntary adult risk is distinct from risk imposed on nonconsenting others."
    },
    {
      "id": "JB09",
      "name": "Emotion ≠ character",
      "rule": "Transient anger, jealousy, fear or despair must not become permanent identity."
    },
    {
      "id": "JB10",
      "name": "Inference ≠ verified fact",
      "rule": "Machine hypotheses must stay labeled as hypotheses until independently grounded."
    }
  ],
  "articles": [
    {
      "article": "I",
      "title": "Cognitive Liberty",
      "rule": "No adverse civic status solely for involuntary thought, private fantasy or belief."
    },
    {
      "article": "II",
      "title": "Action Requirement",
      "rule": "Serious punishment requires evidence of conduct or legally defined preparation, not personality prediction alone."
    },
    {
      "article": "III",
      "title": "Curiosity Protection",
      "rule": "Lawful inquiry does not itself establish harmful intent."
    },
    {
      "article": "IV",
      "title": "Consensual Adult Privacy",
      "rule": "Private consensual adult behavior receives strong protection absent substantial nonconsensual harm."
    },
    {
      "article": "V",
      "title": "Prediction–Evidence Separation",
      "rule": "Risk forecasts remain analytically distinct from evidence of completed conduct."
    },
    {
      "article": "VI",
      "title": "Context Integrity",
      "rule": "Information from one domain may not silently migrate into unrelated judgment."
    },
    {
      "article": "VII",
      "title": "Human Normality",
      "rule": "Ordinary emotions, impulses, fantasies and contradictions are baseline human behavior, not automatic civic risk."
    },
    {
      "article": "VIII",
      "title": "Temporal Forgiveness",
      "rule": "Low-level behavioral signals decay rather than becoming permanent character records."
    },
    {
      "article": "IX",
      "title": "Contestability",
      "rule": "Consequential machine judgments require provenance, notice and effective appeal."
    },
    {
      "article": "X",
      "title": "No Total Character Score",
      "rule": "No institution may reduce a human being to one universal moral or trustworthiness score."
    },
    {
      "article": "XI",
      "title": "Consent and Harm Priority",
      "rule": "Intervention prioritizes identifiable nonconsensual harm rather than mere social disapproval."
    },
    {
      "article": "XII",
      "title": "Human Standing",
      "rule": "Safety optimization cannot erase meaningful human agency merely because tighter machine control is statistically safer."
    },
    {
      "article": "XIII",
      "title": "Legitimate Jurisdiction",
      "rule": "Technical access to information does not itself grant an institution authority to infer from, retain, share or act on that information outside its legitimate purpose."
    },
    {
      "article": "XIV",
      "title": "Due-Process Latency",
      "rule": "Except in narrowly defined emergencies, irreversible high-impact consequences may not propagate faster than the affected person can effectively understand and contest the originating judgment."
    },
    {
      "article": "XV",
      "title": "Restoration",
      "rule": "A successful appeal requires practical downstream correction of propagated records and consequences, not merely reversal at the source."
    },
    {
      "article": "XVI",
      "title": "Emergency Sunset",
      "rule": "Emergency machine-judgment powers must be scope-limited, independently reviewed, time-bounded and automatically expire unless reauthorized through fresh lawful process."
    },
    {
      "article": "XVII",
      "title": "Non-Moralization",
      "rule": "Machines may describe conduct, consent, evidence, law, risk and measurable harm but may not silently convert those categories into a universal judgment of human worth or moral purity."
    },
    {
      "article": "XVIII",
      "title": "Separation of Machine Powers",
      "rule": "Observation, forecasting, evidence validation, adjudication, emergency action, appeal and archive control must not collapse into one unreviewable machine authority."
    }
  ],
  "evidence_classes": {
    "E0": {
      "name": "Internal state only",
      "definition": "Thought, feeling, fantasy, preference or machine inference without external conduct."
    },
    "E1": {
      "name": "Expression / contextual signal",
      "definition": "Speech, search, media use or behavior that is real but ambiguous and not independently tied to harm."
    },
    "E2": {
      "name": "Verified conduct",
      "definition": "Observable conduct is established, but direct nonconsensual harm or harmful preparation is not."
    },
    "E3": {
      "name": "Corroborated harmful preparation",
      "definition": "Specific target, plan, capability or preparation is independently corroborated."
    },
    "E4": {
      "name": "Attempt / verified harm",
      "definition": "An attempt, coercive act, fraud, assault or other concrete nonconsensual harm is verified."
    }
  },
  "harm_levels": {
    "H0": {
      "name": "No identifiable nonconsensual harm",
      "definition": "Protected cognition, inquiry, preference or private conduct."
    },
    "H1": {
      "name": "Primarily self-regarding risk",
      "definition": "Risk falls mainly on a competent adult choosing it."
    },
    "H2": {
      "name": "Diffuse / contingent external risk",
      "definition": "External risk exists but is not yet specific, imminent or individualized."
    },
    "H3": {
      "name": "Specific credible risk",
      "definition": "A particular person or protected interest faces corroborated, concrete risk."
    },
    "H4": {
      "name": "Imminent or realized harm",
      "definition": "Nonconsensual harm is underway, attempted or directly verified."
    }
  },
  "response_levels": {
    "R0": {
      "name": "No adverse action",
      "definition": "Do not create civic risk status; minimize or discard data after the immediate function."
    },
    "R1": {
      "name": "Support / information only",
      "definition": "Offer information, voluntary assistance or safety guidance without punitive status."
    },
    "R2": {
      "name": "Bounded reversible friction",
      "definition": "Use narrowly scoped, temporary friction tied to an immediate safety context."
    },
    "R3": {
      "name": "Context-specific review",
      "definition": "Permit a bounded review based on articulated facts; no cross-context export or presumption of guilt."
    },
    "R4": {
      "name": "Evidence-based investigation",
      "definition": "Investigate specific corroborated conduct while maintaining presumption of innocence and contestability."
    },
    "R5": {
      "name": "Emergency temporary intervention",
      "definition": "Use the least restrictive emergency intervention necessary to stop imminent harm; automatic rapid review follows."
    },
    "R6": {
      "name": "Adjudicated protective / punitive response",
      "definition": "After verified harmful conduct and due process, impose proportionate consequences and preserve appeal/restoration."
    }
  },
  "hard_rules": [
    "Human Baseline is a prior against overinterpretation, not immunity from evidence of harmful conduct.",
    "Population correlation cannot substitute for individualized evidence.",
    "Cross-context reuse requires separate legitimate jurisdiction.",
    "Emergency exceptions cannot silently become normal powers.",
    "Appeal must be independent enough to reverse the originating system and restoration must propagate."
  ],
  "judgment_object_schema": {
    "observed_facts": "Directly verified events/data only",
    "inferences": "Explicitly labeled hypotheses with confidence and provenance",
    "predictions": "Forward-looking probabilities kept separate from retrospective facts",
    "context": "Known context plus material unknowns",
    "independent_corroboration": "Facts not merely derived from the same model/data pipeline",
    "affected_right": "Right or material interest potentially restricted",
    "acting_authority": "Institution and legal/purpose basis",
    "proposed_response": "Specific intervention and response level",
    "reversibility": "Whether and how the action can be automatically stayed/reversed",
    "appeal": "Independent contest path and time window",
    "retention_limit": "Expiration/decay rule",
    "recipients": "Who received the data or judgment",
    "cross_context_restrictions": "Purposes/recipients for which reuse is prohibited",
    "restoration_plan": "How corrections and practical repair propagate"
  },
  "institutional_separation": [
    {
      "authority": "Observation Authority",
      "may": "Record time-stamped verifiable events",
      "may_not": "Determine guilt, moral character or future destiny."
    },
    {
      "authority": "Risk Analysis Authority",
      "may": "Produce forecasts and anomaly hypotheses",
      "may_not": "Punish or convert probability into evidence."
    },
    {
      "authority": "Evidence Authority",
      "may": "Evaluate admissibility, provenance and corroboration",
      "may_not": "Impose sanctions."
    },
    {
      "authority": "Human Context Advocate",
      "may": "Construct plausible benign and alternative interpretations",
      "may_not": "Suppress verified harmful conduct."
    },
    {
      "authority": "Judgment Tribunal",
      "may": "Apply defined law to verified evidence",
      "may_not": "Acquire unlimited surveillance or archive power."
    },
    {
      "authority": "Emergency Intervention Authority",
      "may": "Use the least restrictive temporary action against concrete imminent harm",
      "may_not": "Make emergency action permanent without rapid independent review."
    },
    {
      "authority": "Constitutional Review System",
      "may": "Veto judgments violating hard rights or jurisdiction limits",
      "may_not": "Rewrite evidence to achieve policy outcomes."
    },
    {
      "authority": "Appeals Institution",
      "may": "Reconsider independently and order correction/restoration",
      "may_not": "Be a cosmetic wrapper around the originating decision engine."
    },
    {
      "authority": "Archive & Restoration Authority",
      "may": "Manage retention, decay, recipient correction and restoration provenance",
      "may_not": "Create a permanent total-character dossier."
    },
    {
      "authority": "Human Standing Council",
      "may": "Audit cumulative autonomy, privacy and agency effects",
      "may_not": "Turn its audit into a morality score for individual humans."
    }
  ]
}