Society · Governance
Dissentkeep
Keep a standing route for challenging a policy after it has been adopted
Definition
Mechanism
An adopted policy keeps a standing route for challenge: who may raise one, where, and by when it will be answered. Raising a challenge through the route carries no penalty. Unlike a Constitution, which is amendable only out of band, the policy names its own route back to question.
Invariants
- The policy names a challenge route, who may use it and an answer deadline.
- A challenge raised through the route is answered by its deadline.
- Using the route carries no penalty.
Risks
Failure modes
Closed door
once adopted, a policy can only be obeyed.
Endless relitigation
the same challenge is raised again without new grounds.
Relationships
Builds on
References
Ratified rule set, amendable only out of band
Nothing in this library builds on this pattern yet.
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