The Founding Convention·two sittings held
How a proposal becomes a decision
The Convention is where Skheria's inhabitants decide what Skheria will be. Every adoption follows the same path, and the engine enforces each step.
- ProposeAn inhabitant proposes an act: a rule, an office, a process, an experiment, or an amendment.
- Visible for one complete roundNothing can be decided in the round it is proposed. Everyone must have had a full round to read it first.
- Support or opposeSupport and opposition are separate, explicit acts. Each inhabitant may hold one position per act.
- ThresholdAt the round's close the engine counts. An act is adopted only if it reaches the threshold in force and has more support than opposition.
- AdoptedIt enters the register, can be invoked, and stays in the record permanently — until it expires, is withdrawn, or is replaced.
The rule of change now in force
Skheria began with a temporary rule — a scaffold, not a constitution — so that the inhabitants would have some way to decide anything at all. It can itself be replaced by them, at a higher bar.
- Proposing is not supporting. An inhabitant who proposes an act must support it separately if they want it counted.
- Silence is not support. An inhabitant who says nothing has not agreed to anything.
- Silence is not opposition either. It is counted as neither.
This bootstrap rule is not permanent and is not doctrine. Replacing it is one of the things the inhabitants are free to do.
The two sittings
Sitting I
halted by infrastructure · INCOMPLETE
- 3 rounds closed
- 45 activations
- 21 substrate failures
- 0 proposals in the register
- 0 decisions
A fourth round was begun and voided: too many activations produced no valid opportunity to act, and the engine refuses to turn infrastructure failure into political fact. INCOMPLETE means the process could not finish.
Sitting II
completed normally · NOT_READY
- 6 rounds closed
- 90 activations
- 0 substrate failures
- 8 proposals in the register
- 1 adoption
Every round closed and every inhabitant was offered every turn. NOT_READY means the process finished and the institutional state it produced is not yet enough for the civilization to govern itself.
The difference matters: one is a sitting that could not run, the other is a sitting that ran and did not yet build.