CARTA

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CARTA Public Rule Set

v1.5.0 · adopted 2026-08-01 · hash a4c1-28p-bor-enum-ss-v150

The system must make it structurally difficult to pass legislation that violates the constitutional container or the 28 Principles of Freedom.

Silent updates are prohibited.

AgentChargeCritical floor
Constitutional TextArt. I §8 + Bill of Rights60
28 Principles of FreedomNatural law container50
Single-Subject RuleOne bill, one object70
Fiscal SustainabilityDebt is conquest40
Special-Interest FilterNo private bills45

Layer 1 — Personal AI Legislative Assistant

  1. Every Member drafts inside an isolated desk. Staff may assist; the Member remains the recorded actor.
  2. A bill must declare exactly one subject. Titles that join unrelated policy domains fail the single-subject pre-check.
  3. A bill must cite one enumerated power from Article I, Section 8 (or a later amendment that actually confers power). The Necessary and Proper Clause is an instrument of a listed end, not a 19th power.
  4. A fiscal note is required. Zero is allowed; concealment is not.
  5. Lobbyist and special-interest diction is flagged before submission.
  6. Output is a standardized package: structured record, plain-language summary, constitutional rationale.
  7. Only packages that pass Layer 1 may be transmitted to Layer 2.

Layer 2 — Central Constitutional Review

  1. Five agents score independently. A critical filter that fails produces a hard rejection, regardless of average score.
  2. The ensemble may consult the original Constitution (Articles I–VII), the Bill of Rights (Amendments I–X), later amendments as ratified, the 28 Principles of Freedom (W. Cleon Skousen, The 5,000 Year Leap), the Federalist, and this rule set. It may not invent implied national police powers.
  3. Approve and Reject are the only terminal decisions. 'Needs more study' is not a way around a failed filter.
  4. Every decision is written to an append-only audit log with a hash chained to the prior entry and the model / rule-set versions.

Critical floors (hard reject)

  1. Constitutional Text (constitutional): score below 60 is a critical fail.
  2. 28 Principles of Freedom (principles): score below 50 is a critical fail.
  3. Single-Subject Rule (single_subject): score below 70 is a critical fail.
  4. Fiscal Sustainability (fiscal): score below 40 is a critical fail.
  5. Special-Interest Filter (special_interest): score below 45 is a critical fail.

Emergency national-security fast-track

  1. Fast-track does not skip scoring. It timestamps a 72-hour window and records the invoking actor.
  2. The public report still publishes agent scores. Redactions, if any, must be identified as such.
  3. When the window closes, the ordinary decision stands unless Congress has acted.

Human oversight board

  1. Override requires a public justification of at least 200 characters.
  2. Override is logged, hashed, and displayed on the scoring report in perpetuity.
  3. Override cannot erase the original ensemble decision; it sits beside it.

Charter sources the ensemble reads

  1. The Constitution of the United States (engrossed parchment, September 17, 1787) — Articles I–VII in original spelling. Article I, Section 8 is the inventory of legislative power. Article I, Section 9 is the list of things Congress may not do.
  2. The Bill of Rights — Amendments I through X, proposed September 25, 1789, ratified December 15, 1791. Each is a hard floor. A bill that names an enumerated power still fails if it abridges these rights.
  3. Later amendments XI–XXVII as ratified. Amendment XVIII is history (repealed by XXI) and is cited to show that a national police power required an amendment.
  4. The 28 Principles of Freedom, from W. Cleon Skousen, The 5,000 Year Leap (1981), in their published wording.
  5. Federalist Nos. 1, 10, 39, 41, 44, 45, 47, 48, 51, 78, and 84, as the ratifiers’ public explanation of the inventory, factions, ambition, and void acts. Listing a paper is a lesson: CARTA will teach it and apply the legislative test.
  6. This rule set. Silent updates are prohibited.

Transparency

  1. This rule set is public and version-controlled. Silent updates are prohibited.
  2. Scoring reports are public by default. National-security redactions must cite the emergency window.
  3. Adversarial testing against attempts to game diction, split subjects across vehicles, or launder spending through 'findings' is continuous.