Contribution to the handbook
Priority · Assessed 2026-10-28
The question identifies a consequential institutional choice: amendment thresholds and authorization procedures can affect both safeguard durability and the ability to correct a rule. It also asks how coverage changes should be disclosed rather than silently introduced. The supplied material explicitly leaves thresholds, authority, and correction procedures unresolved [draft-proposal-14-5112c5b1d517, a-constitutional-stop-rule, a-powers-separation, p-adaptability-capture].
Does this challenge the goal?
In-scope gap
The question addresses how a safeguard can resist easy removal while remaining correctable. This advances the existing resilience objective without challenging it.
The two-thirds threshold is a tentative proposal; the packet provides no comparison establishing its effectiveness or legitimacy.
Why this category?
- Material alternatives and trade-off: compare resistance to easy removal with the risk of obstructing legitimate correction; the proposed threshold is not established as effective [a-constitutional-stop-rule].
- Authority and implementation: specify who initiates, deliberates on, and authorizes amendments, preserving the distinction between pause powers and rule-changing powers [draft-proposal-14-5112c5b1d517, a-powers-separation].
- Resilience and adaptability: consider how correction can coexist with resistance to capture, without presuming a particular threshold or authority arrangement [p-adaptability-capture].
The packet offers proposals and open questions, not evidence that a particular amendment threshold or process works.
This is an AI assessment of contribution to the goal, separate from whether the question has an answer.
- Constitutional stop rules with a proposed higher threshold
- Separate pause powers from rule-changing powers
- What threshold and procedure should govern removal or revision of constitutional stop-rule triggers while protecting safeguards from easy removal and permitting legitimate corrections?
- Adapt while resisting capture
Making and interpreting laws →
Authority, accountability and resilience →
Tests, stop conditions and unresolved work →
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