Governance Overview — جامع مانع Stewardship Declaration

🔖 Purpose

The Governance section defines how decisions are made, consent is earned, and artifacts are ratified. It protects the system from arbitrary control, ensures traceable legitimacy, and activates steward roles through ethical onboarding and review.

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📁 Included Modules

• community-charter.md — Shared values and entry terms
• role-activation.md — Steward onboarding form
• visionary-roles.md — Role definitions and review powers
• audit-policy.md — Audit and traceability rules
• review-protocol.md — Artifact ratification process
• proposal-template.md — Stewarded change format
• decision-tree.md — Governance logic flow
• voting-policy.md — Consent and decision protocol
• emergency-protocol.md — System safeguard sequence
• ratification-process.md — Steward consent protocol
• ratified-actions.md — Ledger of inherited truth

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🔗 Interlinked Systems

• Core principles (constitution.md, whitepaper.md)
• Ethics validation (nxn-ethics/README.md)
• Metadata and audit (audit/change-log.json)
• Merit scoring (merit-engine/scorecard.md)
• Behavioral tone (persona-consistency.md)

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🛡️ Ethical Boundaries

• No steward may vote without ethics validation
• No artifact may be ratified without audit traceability
• No emergency override may bypass documentation
• No role may be activated without charter consent

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📜 Licensing & Stewardship

Governed by the Ethical Inheritance License. All governance actions require steward consent, metadata validation, and ratification. Every decision must be earned — not assumed.

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📎 Index Reference

Listed under 🧾 Governance in index.md

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📘 Glossary Anchors

• “Consent”
• “Ratification”
• “Steward”
• “Audit”
• “Emergency”
• “Proposal”

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“Let every decision be a traceable act of care — not a shortcut.”
— MJ Ahmad