Constitutional Operating System

Democracy needs
an operating system.

CivicTruthOS is a modular constitutional stack that helps democratic communities form legitimate common knowledge and translate it into verifiable, accountable action — in the post-truth era.

civictruthos_stack.v3.0
S7
META Governance
Standards · Stewardship · Sunset
S6
ID-PACT
Personhood · Privacy · Participation
S5
L2P Bridge
Legitimacy-to-Policy Execution
S4
ISAGF
Institutional Sustainability & Governance
S3
CKE-MCB
Common Knowledge Engine
S2
LCIP
Legitimacy & Consensus Induction
S1
FRP-TKP-CE
Foundational Remedy · Constitutional Core
7
Interoperable
Protocols
78%
PLI Improvement
(Legitimacy Index)
30M
Monte Carlo
Scenarios
0.97
Non-Linkability
Rate (ID-PACT)
≥0.98
TRS Threshold
(All Scenarios)
Architecture

A three-stage decision pipeline

Claims enter through a contestation gateway, validated into common knowledge, then executed as binding policy — with continuous DIKE oversight at every stage.

Stage 01
Contestation
Claim submission, LCIP processing, and argument mapping with machine-checkable inferences
PLI ≥ λ
Stage 02
Common Knowledge
CKE elevation, independent witness broadcast, and TRS verification across distributed auditors
TRS ≥ 0.98
Stage 03
Execution
L2P Bridge policy enactment with real-time conformance monitoring and automatic rollback
Conformance Suite
Protocols

Seven modular protocols

Each protocol is independently deployable, formally specified, and replication-ready with a single executable.

S1 · FRP-TKP-CE
Foundational Remedy & Constitutional Evolution

Resolves founder capture and constitutional drift through IGPP impartial prior generation, TAU-GOV threshold governance, and AMEND++ two-layer amendment protocol.

IGPP TAU-GOV AMEND++ ZK Proofs
S2 · LCIP
Legitimacy & Consensus Induction Protocol

Defines PLI, BCI, and ERI metrics. Embeds five binding ethical principles including consent to influence, no political targeting, and full formula transparency.

PLI BCI ERI DIKE Appeals
S3 · CKE-MCB
Common Knowledge Engine

Separates belief from common knowledge via witnessed broadcast, adversarial refutation markets, and a monotone learning rule. Merkle-tree ledger with distributed witnesses.

Merkle-DAG TRS Refutation Market
S4 · ISAGF
Institutional Sustainability & Governance

Tri-axis model: Citizens Council (sortition), Expert Board (technical), Rights Ombudsman. 2-of-3 consensus required for systemic changes with formal nomos invariant proofs.

Tri-Axis 2-of-3 MultiSig 180-day Cycle
S5 · L2P
Legitimacy-to-Policy Execution Bridge

PTC and PIC certificates bridge validated conclusions to execution. State machine governs Draft → Enacted transitions. 30M-scenario Monte Carlo conformance testing.

PTC PIC State Machine Conformance Suite
S6 · ID-PACT
Personhood, Privacy & Participation

Pseudonymous personhood with Sybil-resistance. BBS+/CL anonymous credentials, RLAC tokens, and language fairness (LFE < 0.02) across Arabic, English, Mandarin, Spanish, French.

BBS+/CL RLAC LFE < 0.02 Non-linkable
S7 · META
Meta-Governance, Standards & Sunset

Life-cycle governance with versioned proposals, rotating stewardship, and mandatory sunset clauses. Ten-year roadmap with staged indicators and fail-safe freeze/rollback mechanisms.

PoL Certificates PoE Certificates Freeze Mode Sunset Clauses
Empirical Results

Legitimacy can be engineered,
not merely asserted.

Seven replication-ready case studies. All reproducible with run_all.py on commodity hardware. N = 10,000 to 30M Monte Carlo draws per study.

Case Study 1 · S1 + S2
Legitimacy & Error Responsiveness
Procedural Legitimacy Index (PLI) +78% ↑
0.46→0.82
Burden of Consent Index (BCI) −44% ↓
0.39→0.22
Cohen's d 2.14
Case Study 2 · S3
Common Knowledge Under Adversarial Pressure
False Elevation Rate −81% ↓
0.27→0.05
Witnessed Broadcast Coverage +46% ↑
0.61→0.89
TRS maintained across all adversarial scenarios ≥ 0.95
Case Study 4 · S5
Conformance in Policy Execution
Compliant Execution Traces +28% ↑
0.74→0.95
Rollback success without data loss 97%
Median drift detection latency 2.4 cycles
Case Study 5–6 · S6 + S7
Privacy, Participation & Meta-Governance
Non-linkability rate (ID-PACT) 0.97
Duplicate prevention rate 0.998
Language Fairness Error (5 languages) < 0.02
Stewardship continuity under rotation +37% ↑
10-year PLI ≥ 0.9 sustained trajectories 94%
Publication

Submission status

Under peer review at Humanities & Social Sciences Communications (Springer Nature). Version 3.0 with full replication kit.

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Full Title
CivicTruthOS: A Constitutional Operating System for the Post-Truth Era
Journal
Humanities & Social Sciences Communications
Springer Nature · SNAPP
Version
v3.0 · Revised · Double-Blind
Replication Kit
CivicTruthOS_Anonymized_Materials.zip
7 case studies · run_all.py · Synthetic data