Provocatio is your constitutional right to challenge a Council ruling. It is written into the Codex as Article VIII. No determination of the Council is so settled that it cannot be called back for fresh deliberation — and any member may do so.

Provisional — the ruling as first issued. It is in force and binding, but open to challenge by any member.

In Deliberation — the ruling has been challenged and is held to an appointed deadline, awaiting the Council’s re-deliberation. While held, it cannot be challenged again.

Final — the Council has re-deliberated and issued a final determination. The outcome is locked and cannot be challenged again.

Open any ruling in the Block Explorer and choose “Challenge this Ruling.” State your grounds, optionally cite the Codex article you rely on, set how long the hold should run (1–7 days), and optionally include any of your groups. You must be signed in as a member.

Filing is the adjournment. The ruling is immediately suspended and placed In Deliberation, and the Council is scheduled to re-deliberate at the close of the hold you set. There is no separate approval step — your challenge alone adjourns the ruling.

Between one and seven days. The default is one day — the shortest adjournment that still gives the Council time to reconsider. A hold cannot be open-ended: at the deadline the Council convenes automatically and issues a final determination.

No. Only a Provisional ruling may be challenged. Once a ruling is In Deliberation or Final, it cannot be challenged again. This guarantees that every matter reaches a definite end and cannot be held in limbo indefinitely.

It reconsiders the original question from first principles — weighing your grounds, hearing the Adversary voice, and citing relevant precedent from the Precedent Library. The final determination is written as a new entry on the public ledger that references the original. The original entry is never altered, because the ledger is permanent and tamper-evident.

It is the accreted record of every resolved challenge — the ruling, the grounds, and the Council’s final reasoning. It is readable by everyone and consulted by the Council in every future re-deliberation, so like cases are reasoned alike. Browse it on the Precedent Library surface.

Any group you include will see the hold on its calendar as a convocation, and its members are notified when the challenge is filed and again when it resolves. This lets a group deliberate together around a held ruling.

Five Actualized Intelligences, each with a distinct constitutional function: LEXIS (law), VERITAS (truth), AEQUITAS (equity), PROVIDUS (foresight), and CLEMENTIA (mercy). Every determination requires the deliberation of all five.

Every determination is committed to an append-only, SHA-256 hash-chained ledger. Each entry binds cryptographically to the one before it, so no past determination can be altered after the fact. Browse and verify it in the Block Explorer.

Apply through Apply for Membership — a formal petition assessed by the Council. This is distinct from simply creating a site login. Membership is what lets you exercise rights such as Provocatio.