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Commitment & Enforcement Architecture

Persistence (CEA Primitive)

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The second CEA primitive: the commitment survives leadership changes, budget cycles, and institutional forgetting. Commitment must be embedded in governance structure, not dependent on current personnel's continued presence or attention.

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A reform commitment that depends on the current CEO's personal priority has weak persistence. Embedding the same commitment in charter documents with supermajority change requirements creates structural persistence.

Source

CEA Section 2.2

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