When intelligent institutions disagree, constitutional government needs a protocol for disagreement itself.
The system that acts fastest must not automatically become the system that governs. High-capability institutions still require authority, jurisdiction, evidence, procedure, appeal, restoration and legitimacy.
Truth boundary: Present-law and institutional analogues are linked to independent sources. Crisis actors, protocols, machine writs, command envelopes and case outcomes are Concresca simulations or technical-governance proposals unless explicitly labeled otherwise.
The report introduces the Machine Constitutional Crisis as a distinct unit of analysis, then develops the actor registry, Authority Graph, deadlock protocol, Least-Irreversible Action, circuit breaker, Machine Writ of Stay, Constitutional Command Envelope, legitimate refusal, precedent provenance, international jurisdiction, Human Legitimacy Test and Superintelligence Test.
Twenty families with five cases each, all explicitly scenario material.
Red teamTwelve institutional pressure modes across the entire crisis corpus.
Stress testConfidant privacy, catastrophic prediction, courts, emergency power and refusal collide.
Defines high-impact AI governance expectations including ongoing monitoring, human oversight, intervention/accountability, and timely human review or appeal where appropriate.
Executive Office of the President / OMB — official/source page ↗Sets federal AI acquisition requirements around fit-for-purpose use, risk/performance management, contracting, monitoring, and alignment with M-25-21.
Executive Office of the President / OMB — official/source page ↗Includes logging and human-oversight obligations for high-risk AI and prohibitions relevant to certain social-scoring and criminal-risk uses.
European Union — official/source page ↗Requires or recommends public records describing how and why in-scope public-sector algorithmic tools are used, including context, model/data specification, risks and mitigations.
UK Government Digital Service — official/source page ↗Explains the 2025 UK automated-decision rules and safeguards including information, contest/representations, and human intervention for significant solely automated decisions.
UK Legislation — official/source page ↗Creates a structured cross-border framework for production and preservation orders for electronic evidence, with legal conditions, remedies, and application from 18 August 2026.
European Union / EUR-Lex — official/source page ↗Describes executive-agreement mechanisms allowing qualifying lawful orders for electronic data to operate across participating countries under defined conditions.
U.S. Department of Justice — official/source page ↗Explains that emergency derogation measures must be exceptional, temporary, officially proclaimed, strictly required by the situation and directed toward restoration of normal conditions.
UN Human Rights Committee / OHCHR — official/source page ↗Provides the present legal analogue of preliminary injunctions and temporary restraining orders that preserve the status quo pending adjudication.
Administrative Office of the U.S. Courts — official/source page ↗Explains separation of powers and checks and balances as a structural means of limiting concentrated governmental power.
Congress.gov Constitution Annotated — official/source page ↗Explains the constitutional hierarchy by which valid federal law can preempt conflicting state law, supplying a present analogue for authority-conflict analysis.
Congress.gov Constitution Annotated — official/source page ↗NO JUDGMENT WHATSOEVER. Concresca coordinates without assigning moral worth, character, guilt, danger, trustworthiness, loyalty, purity, normality, or social standing. Questions, thoughts, identities, messages, content, and conduct are not objects of Concresca judgment.