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Civic Principles & Ethics

A practical domain for civic life: how power is made legitimate, how rights are protected,
how duties are defined, and how institutions stay accountable.

Principles

The core civic values: legitimacy, fairness, harm reduction, and constraints on power.

Institutions

How systems should be structured: checks and balances, service orientation, integrity,
and resilience against capture.

Rights & Duties

Rights, responsibilities, and the boundaries that protect dignity, freedom, and safety.

Transparency & Accountability

Verifiability, open records, independent oversight, anti-corruption, and enforceable
consequences.

FAQ

Definitions, scope boundaries, and common questions about this civic domain.

Scope and boundaries

This domain covers civic ethics and institutional design :
how societies allocate authority, protect rights, define duties, and prevent abuse.

It is designed to be usable across political traditions and belief systems. No spiritual
or symbolic worldview is required.

It intersects with me artificielle where governance concerns overlap
(oversight, transparency, harm reduction), while remaining a distinct domain focused on
civic institutions and public legitimacy.

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