Constitutional Capital

CCAuthority Architecture

Capitalbuilds outward from a spine paper

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Why is abuse of trust an architectural failure, not a moral one? Wherever capital renewal is discretionary, authority accumulates regardless of intention. Constitutional capital eliminates this by embedding renewal logic in rule-bound temporal structures—exercising authority ex ante, at design time, rather than repeatedly at renewal points.

Where it sits. Introduces constitutional capital as a design category—formalises why discretionary renewal creates abuse regardless of intent, and how PSC eliminates it.

The long-form argument for this work still lives on the existing explainer at /explainer/constitutional-capital. This page carries the abstract and the corpus metadata — the frame the argument would move into unchanged.

Key termsConstitutional Capital · Discretionary Renewal · Renewal Choke Point · Authority Architecture · Cycle Decoupling · Institutional Abuse

In the canonextensionbuilds outward from a spine paper

The paperConstitutional Capital: Separating Authority from Discretion in Long-Horizon Systems — read it on SSRN →

Nearby in the corpus

Also in Capital

The works either side of this one in the canon order — what it builds on and what builds on it.

Governance Coordination CostGCCMacro Theory→Bankable and ExtractableB&EEmpirical→Valuing the Unlicensed CommonsVUCStranded Knowledge Valuation→

Where to go next

Three directions out

Where to go once you have the argument — the paper it comes from, the instrument that measures it, or the next thing it depends on.

Measure itinstrumentsRun the measurement this argument implies against your own institution.→The library65 worksEvery work, by layer, with the argument and the paper side by side.→In the field2 liveWhere the argument has met real money and published dates.→