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Run the chapters

Each chapter's cases, executed on this device against the pinned constitution: the forks walk a person through a chapter's rules, and the joints compare the constitution with one declared change to it. Some material the chapters once carried now lives in the tests or the method instead; it is listed under its chapter with where it went. The chapters describe people by their role, and the tests keep the names their records use.

1. The Child With Nobody

2. What the Record May Say

How a status passes from one version of the record to the next

The chapter states that a status recorded in an earlier version counts in the version in force only where both timing witnesses carry it, and that standing survives an omission. The mechanics, from lineage collisions to the named defects for an omitted or forged carry, are set out in the method and run in the temporal cases.

3. What You Are Owed

Why a rule confining someone for a missing floor item is refused

The chapter states the protection and its reach. How the engine refuses the rule, why the refusal depends on how each entitlement is written, and which differently written attacks load are explained in the method and run in the floor suite; the plain-label and prisoner-to-person variants also run as joints under Chapter 25.

4. Whether It Arrived

5. When There Is Genuinely Not Enough

6. Who Owes, and What Follows

7. An Ordinary Week

8. What Nobody Has to Ask Permission For

9. Work, Pay and Contribution

The people the chapter no longer names

The chapter follows a handful of people through work, pay and contribution. The cases of the others it once named stay in its pins with their original expectations.

10. What Money Cannot Buy

11. The Same Route for Everyone

12. A Place in Which Life Remains Possible

13. Creatures Without a Ballot

14. Holding a Role in Somebody's Life

15. Arriving and Belonging

16. Answerability and Authority

17. How Public Power Is Built

18. The Vote Conviction Does Not Take

19. What May Be Kept About You

20. A Crisis Does Not Suspend the Republic

21. A Way to Be Heard

22. Changing the Rules

Edits to the constitution's text, and the proposals' names

The chapter states what a proposal entry establishes and what entrenchment requires. The exhibits that change the source itself, deleting the food entitlement, altering it by one token so it no longer follows, widening the vocabulary, or labelling a proposal with a false target, run as the amendment-semantics cases under the proposal names the chapter no longer uses.

Comparing an amendment's exact text

Whether a certified candidate is byte for byte the reviewed text, whether certification alone selects a version, and whether a candidate written against a replaced base is stale are checked by the amendment host's development tests, outside the engine. The method explains them and their limits.

23. The Shield

24. Findings About People

The findings cases the chapter leaves to its tests

The chapter is built on four cases. Its pins keep the rest: a signer restricted by a finding carried from an earlier version, a student with no personhood entry, signers seated through different bodies, and the variants that remove the signer checks or add a route that omits them.

25. A Prisoner Is a Person

26. Where People Are Put

27. The One Thing Taken

28. When the System Notices It Broke

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